BIRMINGHAM: A Birmingham man falsely claimed he had been kidnapped and begged his partner to pay a ransom demand in a scam so he could get money to buy drugs. Jobless Paresh Savji Devraj’s distressed lover contacted cops and told them he would be killed if she didn’t cough up £1,000.
But police soon established the threats were not genuine and charged 35-year-old Devraj, of no fixed address, with wasting police time after they found him ‘high’ on crack cocaine.
Det Chief Insp Simon Wallis, of West Midlands Police CID, said: “It is reasonable to assume if you tell a lie about a serious crime, a person is going to call the police. Officers worked extremely hard to try to find Devraj. When they did he was relaxing having been taking crack cocaine throughout the day. Not only had he deceived his partner to try to obtain a sum of money but he had foreseeably placed the police in a position of a major incident to find him before he was killed.”
