College student posed as 'exam cheat for hire' to illegally sit theory tests on behalf of struggling learner drivers
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA college student set himself up as an 'exam cheat for hire' so he could illegally sit driving theory tests on behalf of struggling learner drivers - charging £300 a time.
Olivier Yolo, 27, agreed to fraudulently take theory tests for cash at a series of DVLA centres across the north when the real applicants who were due to take them feared they would fail.
The engineering undergraduate, of Lathbury Road, Monsall, masqueraded as a string of provisionally-licenced motorists in seven separate theory tests - including in Stockport and Bolton - after being put in touch with them through his local barber. READ MORE: Join the FREE Manchester Evening News WhatsApp community He was eventually arrested when staff became suspicious of him whilst trying to take a test at the Stockport centre in August last year.
It emerged Yolo, who had passed his driving test a year before the scam, had tried to sit other theory tests at Preston, Bolton, Scarborough, Sheffield and Chester.
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