Man caught on Facebook over staged car crash with partner gets year in jail

A man who staged a car crash with his partner while they were pretending to be strangers has been jailed for one year.

The attempted fraud by David Ward, 30, and Lynsey Ivory, 27, was discovered when the insurance company saw they appeared in each other’s Facebook profile pictures, a court heard.

Ward was the front seat passenger in an Opel Corsa which rear-ended the Volkswagen Passat that Ivory was driving on Corballis Rd, Donabate, on July 22, 2013.