A BRADFORD man has been jailed for failing to pay back more than £4,500 wrongly credited to him over three years.

Ahsin Chaudhry, of Allerton Road, was jailed for eight weeks for five charges of retaining a wrongful credit, for a total of £4,577.32.

In the first charge, knowing or believing that a wrongful credit of £1,525.44 had been made to an account kept by him, or which he had an interest in, he dishonestly failed to take steps as were reasonable to secure the credit was cancelled on March 10, 2019. He was sent to prison for three weeks.

Chaudhry was jailed for two weeks, to run consecutively, for a further wrongful credit of £1,144 on November 18, 2019.

He was committed to prison for one week, to run consecutively, for not cancelling a wrongful credit he retained of £621 on January 14, 2022.

Chaudhry was sent to prison for one week, to run consecutively, for retaining a wrongful credit of £708.29 on June 28, 2021.

In the fifth retaining wrongful credit charge, he was jailed for one week, to run consecutively, for a credit of £578.59 on January 28, 2020.

He was sentenced at Bradford & Keighley Magistrates’ Court on July 6, 2022.