A schoolboy jailed for a “remarkably sophisticated” fake car insurance fraud on the Gumtree website has seen his sentence slashed by appeal judges.
Azeem Mahmood Hussain, 19, from Walsall, used online adverts to con victims into paying for non-existent policies. He made almost £4,000 from the scam, which he carried out when he was only 16 years old and still at school.
Last month he was sentenced at Wolverhampton Crown Court to 12 months youth custody for four frauds.
But judges at the Court of Appeal said not enough account had been taken of his young age at the time. They also said there was evidence Hussain had turned his life around, having obtained qualifications and landed a job.
