Lady Bags Jail Sentence After Deliberately Sawing Off Her Hand To Claim £925,000 In Insurance Scam (photos)

A young lady has been sentenced to three-year imprisonment for deliberately cutting her hand off with a saw in order to claim a £925,000 insurance payout.

The 22-year-old identified as Julija Adlesic from Ljubljana in Slovenia hatched a macabre plot with her boyfriend to chop off her left hand above the wrist — and then leave it at home when they went to the hospital so it could not be reattached.

Prosecutors said how about a year before she sawed her hand off she signed up with five different insurance companies.

Adlesic stood to collect more than £925,000, about half paid immediately and the rest in regular monthly installments.

Just days before the incident in early 2019, police investigations found Adlesic‘s boyfriend, Sebastien Abramov, searched online for information on artificial hands work.

This was used as evidence that the amputation was part of an insurance scam plot.

After sawing off her hand she was taken by her boyfriend and his dad to hospital, saying she had injured herself while sawing branches.

Authorities said they left the severed hand behind rather than bringing it to the hospital to ensure the disability was permanent in order to receive the enormous payouts.

However, their plans were foiled after police recovered the appendage and surgeons reattached it.

She was subsequently found guilty of attempted insurance fraud by a court in the city.

Sentencing her to three years, Judge Marjeta Dvornik said;

We believe the sentences are fair and appropriate, and will serve their purpose.

Her boyfriend Abramov was sentenced to three years in prison while his dad received a one-year suspended sentence.