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DVLA FRAUD: Swansea insider jailed after doctoring car records in £1.3m scam
A DVLA worker who used his job to doctor vehicle records in an organised fraud has been jailed.
Matthew Holloway, 32, abused his position at the agency’s Swansea office to falsify car paperwork, a court heard.
His changes inflated the value of the vehicles involved by almost £1.3m, and cost the DVLA itself £117,500.
Holloway, from the Birchgrove area of Swansea, was sentenced to five years and three months at Swansea Crown Court.
He had worked in the DVLA’s special registration team — described in court as a position of trust and responsibility.
Holloway conspired with two Swansea car dealers, Ashley Harris, 44, and Joshua Sawyer, 32, who paid him to manipulate records for their businesses.
Harris, from Llansamlet, was jailed for two years and eight months. Sawyer, from Morriston, was sentenced to two years and four months.
All three had previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit fraud between January 2021 and July 2022.
The court heard Holloway ran what the prosecution called a “systematic campaign” of vehicle document tampering.
He removed registered keepers from logbooks and inserted new names, altered vehicle identification numbers, and stripped out markers showing cars had been written off.
In one instance, his alterations allowed a Ferrari that had been written off in Australia to be sold in the UK under false documentation.
In another, he doctored the records of a Mercedes-AMG so many times that the prosecutor suggested it might point to use in criminal activity.
Holloway also worked for others not before the court, in one case issuing false identity documents for a stolen Range Rover that was then sold to an innocent buyer.
Harris and Sawyer paid Holloway around £23,400 between them for circumventing the agency’s usual controls.
Judge Huw Rees told the men that “greed is at the heart of each of you defendants and your offending”.
He described the case as “organised and sophisticated criminality which has been committed for selfish gain”.
Holloway, who was in tears in the dock, was told his actions represented “a substantial fall from grace”.
Lisa McCarthy, of the Crown Prosecution Service, said Holloway had held a trusted position and exploited it for financial benefit, as had Harris and Sawyer.
She said their offending had “risked corrupting the UK’s vehicle registration system”, which the public, motor trade and law enforcement rely on for accurate information.
The DVLA said the case was a serious breach of trust by a former employee, who was dismissed once the fraud was identified.
A spokesperson said the agency had since strengthened its internal controls to help prevent similar activity.
A proceeds of crime hearing in relation to the case is due to be held in October.
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The Hobbit takes a Welsh twist at Morriston Library
Adam Pearce will be talking about how he translated JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit into Welsh for the first time at two events – one in Welsh, the other in English at 1pm and 2pm, respectively.
Translated as Yr Hobyd, The Hobbit tells of the adventures of Bilbo Baggins, Middle Earth, dragons, treasure and a ring of gold and Adam Pearce brings it all to life through the medium of Welsh.
To go along to the event on Saturday, you must book free tickets by calling 01792 516770 or by emailing [email protected]
Elliott King, Swansea Council’s Cabinet Member for Culture and Equalities, said: “Any fan of a book that was already legendary before the amazing films brought it to an even wider audience, will want to find out more about how Adam translated The Hobbit into Welsh.
“The Hobbit has already been translated into many languages, from Dutch and Latin to Esperanto and Faroese, but never into Welsh. So to have Adam at one of our libraries discussing how and why he did it, is quite a coup.”
AdvertisementAdam has previously translated H.G. Wells into Welsh and works by T. Gwynn Jones and Daniel Owen from Welsh into English.
His translation of The Hobbit has been prepared in accordance with J.R.R. Tolkien’s own instructions for translators of his work and officially licenced by the Tolkien Estate.
Included are J.R.R. Tolkien’s original illustrations and new Welsh versions of the two maps featured in the original novel.
(Lead image: Swansea Council)
Advertisement#books #Morriston #MorristonLibrary #SwanseaCouncil #WelshLanguage
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#Nemetext is the most up-to-date part of my website!
#Nemetext IS THE up-to-date part of my website...
Anyway, playing tonight with The Hat And The Fiddle!
jamienemeth.co.uk
#Gig #Music #LiveMusic #Morriston #Swansea #Wales #Violin #Fiddle #TheHatAndTheFiddle #Teletext
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In 1970 Swansea Council gardeners planted 200 Scots pine saplings in 11 areas of the #Kilvey Hill copper tips.The areas were heavily toxic, but Scots p.were thought to have a good chance of survival as they were traditionally planted on Welsh coal waste.The saplings were probably raised in the 'Gasworks Nursery' in #Morriston being the main tree nursery for the #LowerSwanseaValleyProject of the 1960s. This is one of about fifty surviving Gasworks Pines on the Hill today. #EnvironmentalHistory
