Two international students have been jailed after scamming train companies by claiming compensation for delayed trains they weren’t even on.

Li Liu, 26, and Wanqing Yu, 25, managed to claim around £140,000 to pay for their living expenses and tuition fees in Leeds.

Leeds Crown Court heard how the pair, living in student digs in Clay Pit Lane, used false identities, disposable email accounts, and international bank transfers to trick train companies into paying them.

They were rumbled by CrossCountry Trains who worked out the scam Liu and Yu were using only after they amassed a whopping 447 fraudulent transactions.

Other train companies later found themselves to have also been the target of Liu and Yu’s scheme, which ran from October 2021 until February this year.

Detectives spotted a

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