A court in Slovenia sentenced a 22-year-old woman to two years in prison after she was found guilty of cutting off her hand to claim insurance, as per a report in AFP.?
Her 30-year-old partner, accused of being the mastermind, was given three years by the Ljubljana District Court, news agency STA reported.?
It was not clear if the pair, who had pleaded not guilty, would appeal the verdict.?
The woman, Julija Adlesic, was detained early last year for allegedly cutting off her hand at the wrist with a circular saw to get nearly 400,000 euros ($470,000) in insurance compensation.?
The woman is thought to have staged the incident, together with three others, earlier this year shortly after the group signed life and injury insurance contracts with five different insurance companies.?
The woman was hoping to get around 380,000 euros of compensation and a life-long monthly payout of some 3,000 euros, according to police.?
She intentionally left the hand behind rather than bring it with her to the hospital, hoping to receive three times higher compensation for permanent disability after what she claimed was an accident, police had said.?
But authorities managed to pick up the hand in time, and doctors in a hospital in the capital Ljubljana were able to reattach it.?
The average monthly net income is around 1,000 euros in Slovenia.?