A 16-stone kickboxer who claimed he was crocked falling down a hole just 18 inches wide could be jailed for his “dishonesty”.
Thai boxer Stuart Mann was “highly unlikely” to have plunged through the tiny gap, a judge said. The 39-year-old told a doctor two years after his supposed fall that he was still “too disabled to do housework”.
However the “strongly built” martial artist also boasted to a physio that he was training for a fight and “doing 50 high kicks a day with each leg”.
And evidence showed he had been back fighting over 18 months before he lied to the doctor, the judge said. Mann, from Hartlepool, Co Durham, had been working for a demolition company knocking down a former school in Stoke.
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