Wasting police time 2

[jelly baby]

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Right, she had her mobile stolen from a desk in the gym, someone told her not to tell the insurance people it was taken from a public place as she wouldn't be covered so she stupidly said she had it snatched. the police interviewed her and she insisted on the *** story. A couple of days later they spoke to her again, asking pointed questions about the identifiability of the phone. It became obvious that they had the phone so she fessed up. She immediately cancelled the claim with the insurance company. The phone was stolen by a kid in the gym who's mother found it and returned it to the gym. She wasn't trying to defraud the insurance which has been accepted by the police, so she has been charged with wasting police time. She is sick with worry and has hardly worked since January as most of her work comes to her by phone and the police still have it. Her solicitor isn't helping much. He didn't turn up to meet her when he should and is pushing for an adjournment to get reports, also hes just told her today she has to send her accounts in to him (she's self-employed). She is in court on Friday and I wonder if she needs a solicitor since she is pleading guilty.
Hope that's enough
Thanks
Jelly baby

[bednobs]

but she was trying to defraud the insurance company surely if she knew they wouldn't pay out under certain circumstances, so invented other circumstances?

[ummmm]

So the insurance wouldn't cover her for theft?

[jelly baby]

As I said, she was stupidly advised that the ins. co. wouldn't pay out on theft from a public place, she put the phone on the desk whilst searching in her bag, when she turned to get it, it was gone. The police accept that she wasn't trying to defraud the ins. co.

[ummmm]

But she was!!

[jelly baby]

She has been charged with wasting police time NOT fraud. All I originally asked was a possible outcome for that offence!

[ummmm]

A fine probably.