Motor Insurance Conspiracies
| Author | Albert Dixon |
| Date | 01 April 1935 |
| DOI | 10.1177/0032258X3500800208 |
| Published date | 01 April 1935 |
| Subject Matter | Article |
Motor Insurance Conspiracies
By
DETECTIVE-SERGEANT
ALBERT
DIXON
Liverpool City Police.
THE
Liverpool Summer Assizes, 1934, witnessed the
unmasking of a conspiracy to use motor vehicles on
the road without there being in force in relation to the
vehicles a third party policy of insurance.
The
conspirators were a man of 35 years, who for the
past fourteen years had carried on the business of an insurance
broker, and a Liverpool motor-coach and garage proprietor,
aged 45.
A large proportion of the business done by the first
prisoner was with persons who paid their insurance premiums
by instalments.
There
were six counts of conspiracy in the indictment
against both prisoners, and two counts against each of
uttering a forged certificate of insurance, also five counts
under Section
IIZ
of the Road Traffic Act, 1930, against
the insurance broker for allowing certificates of insurance
to be used with intent to deceive, and five under the same
Section against the garage proprietor for using the certificates
with intent to deceive. One of the conspiracy counts was
that
the accused conspired to utter a forged certificate of
insurance, and the others, briefly, were
that
they conspired
to use and perrn't other persons to use motor vehicles without
there being in force a third party policy of insurance;
that
with intent to prejudice the community they conspired to
effect a public mischief by using or allowing to be used
motor vehicles without their being
insured;
and the remain-
ing three counts were of conspiring with intent to deceive,
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