Former NHS worker sentenced for multiple COVID 19 vaccination records fraud

A former NHS worker was sentenced today (Friday 18 July 2025) guilty for 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.”