Man who posed as £300-a-time 'exam cheat for hire' to illegally sit driving theory tests JAILED
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA struggling college student who set himself up as a £300-a-time 'exam cheat for hire' so he could illegally sit driving theory tests on behalf of learner drivers has been jailed.
Olivier Yolo, 27, agreed to fraudulently take theory tests for cash at a series of DVSA centres across the the north of England, including in Bolton and Stockport, for learners who were due to take them feared they would fail.
The engineering undergraduate masqueraded as provisionally licenced motorists in six separate theory tests after being put in touch with them through his local barber, but was arrested when staff became suspicious when he tried to take a seventh test at the Stockport centre in August 2022. READ MORE: Join the FREE Manchester Evening News WhatsApp community Yolo, who had passed his driving test just 12 months before the scam, had also tried to sit theory tests at Preston, Scarborough, Sheffield and Chester.
A court heard the father-to-be had been struggling financially due to the cost of living crisis and the ruse seemed like 'easy money'.
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