Fake Coma

A man in Britain faked being in a coma for two years to avoid a fraud trial. He was today jailed along with his wife for trying to con the courts in an "extreme" manner.

A fraudster who pretended to be quadriplegic and sometimes comatose for two years to avoid prosecution has been convicted after police caught him on camera driving and strolling around supermarkets.

Michael Schumacher has been a coma since Sunday, when he was helicoptered to hospital after slamming his head on a rock while skiing off-piste in the upmarket resort of Meribel with his son.

A man in Britain faked being in a coma for two years to avoid a fraud trial. He was today jailed along with his wife for trying to con the courts in an "extreme" manner.

A fraudster who pretended to be quadriplegic and sometimes comatose for two years to avoid prosecution has been convicted after police caught him on camera driving and strolling around supermarkets.

Michael Schumacher has been a coma since Sunday, when he was helicoptered to hospital after slamming his head on a rock while skiing off-piste in the upmarket resort of Meribel with his son.