A penniless pensioner from west London paid for a life-saving heart operation with a fake cheque.
Retired painter and decorator Roy Thayers was facing a nine-month wait on the NHS to get an angioplasty.
Instead, the 77-year-old wrote out a cheque for almost £9,000 for a private operation at Hammersmith Hospital - despite only having £10 in the bank.
He is now paying back the remaining amount of £6,481 in £25 instalments. He will be 99 by the time it is repaid.
Doctors told the father of two he risked a fatal heart attack at any time. Then he was told there was a nine-month wait.
He was left with the choice of either waiting out the nine months and risk having a fatal heart attack or writing out a "Mickey Mouse cheque" and going private.
The decision was easy.
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