Fake Alibi

I discovered a web site the other day that allows paying customers to create alibis. Fakealibi.co.uk states on it's web site: "We provide a First Class Alibi service - for whatever your situation requires. Our Account Managers, and FA Agents are on hand 24/7 to assist you!"

I am not quite sure that a service such as this would extend to providing criminal clients with alibis in order to avoid conviction. In fact The Times ran a news article a few weeks ago mentioning this web site and commented that this site may even unwittingly facilitate a crime. I can see it now, Joe Bloggs has been arrested for a GBH, he is interviewed and makes no comment in the interview when he exercises his right to silence, he is then bailed by the Police for further investigations to be carried out. Joe Bloggs then contacts Fakealibil.co.uk and arranges for an alibi to be created by claiming he was in a pub with a friend when really he was assaulting the complainant. The Police reinterview Joe Bloggs when he returns to the Police Station and he gives details of his new alibi. Hey presto he has the barebones of a defence!

I am sure that Police scrutiny would get past the sham of an alibi once a statement is taken from the person providing the alibi evidence.

Another service that I have noticed that has become more popular in recent years is replacement wage slips and P60s. Web sites such as this can provide you with pretty much what financial information you want to appear on a wage slip or P60. I am not suggesting that these wage slip services are doing anything wrong but a criminal who is interested in fraud can lie to a genuine wage slip service and obtain pretty good documents to then defraud another.