Judge throws out fake holiday illness case

A man who claimed he had suffered food poisoning on holiday has had his case thrown out of court and could now be prosecuted for a crime.

As well as ordering 30-year-old Tom Oakley to pay £9,000 in costs to TUI, the judge also referred the case to police and asked them to investigate whether the bogus claim constitutes criminal activity.

TUI described the judge’s decision to refer the matter to police as ‘a new move’.

The Mail Online reports Oakley, from Northampton, claimed he had fallen ill on a TUI holiday at the all-inclusive Hotel Helena Park in Sunny Beach, Bulgaria in July 2015.

He had appointed ‘no win, no fee’ solicitors to claim £2,500 as compensation for illness that included diarrhoea and abdominal cramps. In his claim, he said he’d been unable to leave his hotel room for two days and had to postpone a boat trip.

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