A BUNGLING crash for cash gang were caught on camera deliberately selecting a wall and slowly driving into it, Bradford Crown Court heard.

They then called the police saying the damage was caused when another vehicle forced them off the road.

Two of the group, Viliam Farkas and Marketa Farkasanova, were still at large, prosecutor Nick Askins said.

But a third member of the team, Milan Klempar, 57, of Lansdown Court, Ladywell Close, Bradford, pleaded guilty to fraud by false representation and was ordered to pay £2,827 in compensation to the fleeced insurance company.

Klempar was also sentenced to 200 hours of unpaid work as part of a 12 month community order.

Mr Askins said that on the evening of November 21, 2015, Klempar drove his Honda Civic with the two co-accused in it to New Lane, Tong, Bradford.

He stopped the car and the team looked for a location for the crash, selecting a wall at the rear of an address at Flaxton Court.

Klempar then drove slowly into the wall, reversed and hit it a second time.

The court heard that £2,827 damage was caused to the wall, met by the Liverpool and Victoria Insurance Company that had insured the Honda.

Farkas rang the police to report the collision, saying another car had caused the Honda to leave the road and hit the wall.

Police officers attended the scene and arrangements were made to collect the damaged Honda.

“CCTV recovered from a property nearby showed the reality of what had occurred,” Mr Askins stated.

The two co-accused made personal injury claims against the Liverpool and Victoria Insurance Company, attending for medical examinations in February, 2016, that cost the claims management company handling the case £912.

Mr Askins said no money was paid out to any of the three people involved in the scam.

Klempar told the police in April last year that it was all Farkas’s idea.

His barrister, Stephen Wood, said he was a hard working man of good character, assessed by the probation service as being a very low risk of reoffending.