More than TWENTY fraud trials could collapse - costing taxpayers millions - after 'expert' prosecution witness on carbon credits is revealed to have no qualifications and 'couldn't remember' if he passed his A Levels

Daily Mail

More than 20 fraud trials could be declared unsafe after it emerged a star prosecution witness is a fantasist with no qualifications.

Andrew Ager, who has testified in a string of court cases, was called to give evidence in a multi-million pound diamond scam trial that later collapsed. 

In total, victims lost £3.5million but the eight defendants walked free from court after a judge was forced to deliver not guilty verdicts on multiple fraud charges. 

The men were cleared after it emerged Ager, a witness for the prosecution, had no academic qualifications - and could not even remember if he had passed his A-Levels."