The final member of a "cash for crash" fraud gang has been jailed.
Used car company owner Peter Farish, 45, was said to have played an important role in a scam which was masterminded by a serial fraudster, 48-year-old Mark McCracken.
The illegal £600,000 enterprise involved 34 other people, each of whom was sentenced by a judge last Friday for motor insurance fraud offences.
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They were brought to justice following a joint investigation by police, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and the Insurance Fraud Bureau (IFB).
Farish, who owned Castleway Motors in Church Street, Carlisle, was convicted of four insurance fraud charges after a crown court trial which also involved three other north Cumbria garage owners.
He was today jailed for 12 months by Judge Peter Davies at Carlisle Crown Court.
Defence lawyer Matthew Crowe, mitigating on behalf of Farish, of Cumwhinton Drive, Carlisle, said the businessman's offending had "torn him apart", and "destroyed his life".
McCracken received a seven-year prison sentence last Friday for his lead role in the crime.
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