A Slovenian woman has been convicted of intentionally cutting off her hand as part of an insurance scam.
A court in the capital, Ljubljana, found that Julija Ad Dalessic, 22, had taken out five insurance policies in the year before her injury. She claimed it happened while she was cutting branches.
Adlasic paid m 1m (£ 900,000, 16 1.16m) in payments.
She now faces two years in prison, while her boyfriend has been sentenced to three years.
She was then cut off from the wrist by hand and rushed to the hospital.
The court found that she and her boyfriend had left instead of bringing a deliberately dislocated arm with her to make sure the disability remained permanent. However, officers recovered in time to re-sew it.
Prosecutors said the woman’s boyfriend had also searched the Internet about the prosthetic arm in earlier days.
Prosecutors said this is evidence that the injury was intentional.
The father of Adlasic’s boyfriend was also given a one-year suspended sentence.
Throughout the hearing, Ad Dalesek deliberately refused to cut off his hand.
If the fraudulent claims had been successful, the couple would have received half a million euros as a lump sum, with the rest paid in monthly installments.
