A former NHS worker was sentenced on July 18, 2025, guilty of conspiring to create hundreds of false COVID-19 vaccination records.
Wayne Knight, 40, a Senior Healthcare Worker at North East London NHS Foundation Trust, pleaded guilty to fraud by misrepresentation and money laundering-related offences on 6 May 2025 and was sentenced to 24 months’ imprisonment at Snaresbrook Crown Court.
The defendant was part of a scheme to create 238 false COVID-19 vaccination records between July and November 2021 in return for payment. The false records show that an individual has received a dose of the COVID-19 vaccination when in fact they have not.
Laura Walters of the Crown Prosecution Service said, “Wayne Knight in this case saw an opportunity to profit from the pandemic by selling false COVID-19 vaccination records.
“They showed a callous disregard for the public health risk this may have created, including the dangerous situation that vulnerable individuals may have come into contact with those they thought had the COVID-19 vaccination but had nothing of the kind.”
