Young woman deliberately saws off own hand to claim £1million in insurance fraud

mirror.co.uk:

A young woman who deliberately sawed off her left hand to claim almost £1 million in insurance payouts has been jailed for fraud.

Julija Adlesic, 22, and her boyfriend claimed the hand was severed above the wrist in an accident while she cut branches, and they left it behind when they went to a hospital for urgent treatment.

But a court in Ljubljana, Slovenia, found that the couple intentionally cut off the hand with a circular saw so that they could make a bogus insurance claim.

An investigation revealed that Adlesic had taken out five insurance policies in the year before her injury, and her boyfriend made internet searches about artificial hands in the days leading up to the incident.