Another case of examiners taking bribes and getting caught is reported by the Coventry Telegraph.
All the details are in that link, but in a nutshell, Bushra Chughtai (55) and Andrew Cursley (46) took bribes and passed test candidates who either didn’t show up or who drove so badly that the examiners had to take control of the car. In one case a candidate actually hit another car, but the test continued and they still passed.
Investigators were on to them and they were caught. Chugtai was jailed for 3 years, Cursley for 18 months, and an accomplice/fixer – Mahomed Ibrahim (47), who appears to have been an ADI from other reports – for 15 months.
There is a funny side, too. Chugtai apparently made £6,000 out of it. Cursley made about £3,600. It isn’t made clear, but Ibrahim may have made significantly more, though he doesn’t sound like the sort of person you could trust and probably no one will ever know. You can’t help wonder at the sort of mentality that puts such small sums of money higher up the list of priorities than prison and a future with almost no job prospects when they get out. Absolute idiots.