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Artist Jailed for Six Months for Lying to Inflate £3 Million NHS Claim

Festival footage alongside social-media clips showed she misrepresented her disability to experts.

Overview

  • Mrs Justice Tipples imposed an immediate six-month prison term for contempt of court, ruling the conduct seriously interfered with justice.
  • Kae Burnell-Chambers was ordered to pay £135,000 towards Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust’s legal costs.
  • Video from the 2019 Kustom Kulture Blast Off showed her parading and dancing without a walking aid, with additional footage contradicting her medico-legal presentation.
  • The court accepted she had cauda equina syndrome, but she admitted she had ‘deliberately changed’ her presentation to experts and later abandoned her damages claim.
  • The trust argued her case was grossly overstated and likely worth under £200,000, and the judge rejected mitigation based on childcare concerns.