A taxi driver has been found to have defrauded insurers of more than £30,000 by inventing false stories about pet dogs dying in bizarre accidents, in what appears to be a sustained insurance fraud scheme. Among the fabricated incidents was a claim that a dog had died after chasing a seagull off Blackpool pier, one of several invented scenarios used to extract payouts.

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