A JUDGE has blasted a fraudster after learning he hadn’t done any of the unpaid work under a previous court order.

Kurt Giddings, 21, was ordered to do 250 hours of community service after he admitted his role in a cash-for-crash insurance scam.

But in the seven months since the sentence was passed Giddings has only turned up for the induction session and not actually done any work.

And although the probation service asked for the hours to be replaced with a curfew, Recorder Michael Vere-Hodge QC refused and ordered that the work must be done.

Giddings, of Euclid Street, had been put on the order in July last year after admitting conspiracy to defraud when he pretended to have whiplash injuries.

Two drivers claimed they had been involved in a rear end shunt near the Magic Roundabout and both said they had passengers who suffered whiplash-like injuries in the incident on Queens Drive.

Giddings told insurers he needed treatment for a sore neck and back as a result of the accident. But as soon as the men were confronted by suspicious investigators they admitted the collision had never taken place.

In October last year Giddings was fined by magistrates for failing to comply with the unpaid work, but within weeks he again failed to turn up on two occasions.

Marcus Davey, prosecuting, said he had completed one and a half hours after turning up for an induction meeting but had not actually done any work.

Lee Mott, defending, said that the probation service was recommending the community service be changed into a curfew.

His client is currently not working, he said, but he hoped to get a job in the fitness industry or with Nationwide.

He told the court his client had written a letter to the judge in which he said he was taking the order seriously.

But the judge blasted Giddings, saying: “You say probation makes it seem like you don’t hold your community order in a high regard and this isn’t the case.

“As I have already said to Mr Mott I find it difficult bearing in mind you haven’t done any actual hours of unpaid work. That you have completely ignored it.

“Having read all about you and what has been set out in the report it seems to me the order of the court is that you should complete the hours.

“And if you don’t complete the hours and there is another breach you know where you will be going.

“I see no reason why the court should bend to you. Your statement that you hold it in high regard is an empty and completely hollow assertion by you. I hope you understand if you don’t complete the hours and there is another breach you will be brought back before this court.

“There is absolutely no reason why, as a fit young man, you can’t complete the hours.”

The judge fined him £100 with £80 costs and told him he must complete the remaining hours.