An Essex mechanic and "banger" race driver has had a £30,000 insurance claim for injury thrown out of court and been ordered to pay £23,000 in costs after he was "dishonest" and kept his previously broken bones a secret.

Jason "Boxer Jack" Jackson, 43, from Basildon, blamed his "severe back pain" on a minor road crash, but law firm investigators working for an insurance company tracked down a newspaper article from two years prior to the crash. Here, Mr Jackson talked about injuries he had sustained racing old motor cars, which firm Clyde & Co said he had not disclosed to medical examiners.