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Woman Who Sawed Off Own Hand Found Guilty Of Fraud
A Slovenian woman has been found guilty of deliberately saw- ing off her own hand as part of an insurance scam.
A court in the cap- ital Ljubljana found that Julija Adlesic, 22, had taken out five insurance policies in the year before her injury. She had claimed it happened as she cut branches.
Adlesic stood to gain more than €1m (£900,000, $1.16m) in pay- outs.
She now faces two years in prison, while her boyfriend has been given a
three-year sen- tence.
Adlesic and a number of rela- tives were arrest- ed in 2019 after she arrived in hospital with her
hand cut off above the wrist.
The court found that she and her boyfriend had intentionally left the severed hand behind rather than
bringing it with them to ensure the disability was permanent. However, authori- ties recovered it in time to sew it back on.
Prosecutors said the woman's boyfriend had also made inter- net searches about artificial hands in the days beforehand.
Prosecutors said this was proof that the injury was intentional.
Adlesic's boyfriend's father was also given a one-year sus- pended sentence.
Throughout the trial, Adlesic had denied intention- ally cutting off her hand.
Had the fraudu- lent claim been successful, the couple would have received more than half a million euros as a lump sum, with the rest paid in monthly instal- ments.
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