Chicken shop owner has wings clipped for fowl play in fraudulent fire claim
A chicken shop owner and his brother have been handed prison sentences following investigations by Allianz and Sedgwick into a fire in 2018.
Following a fire in April 2018, Mohammad Suleyman, now aged 34, who lived in Handsworth, Birmingham at the time, lodged a claim for an estimated £280,000 in late September 2018.
Suleyman and his
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