Housing officer jailed for illegal sub-letting
A housing officer who illegally sublet a council home has been jailed.Julia Miah, 45, from Luton, was jailed for a year and ordered to pay £20,000 in compensation and £3,174 in costs after admitting...
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A 61 year old Skipton woman who falsely claimed more than £14,000 in benefits has received a community sentence from Bradford Crown Court.Claire Greenwood admitted at Skipton Magistrates' Court earlier...
View ArticleLight sentence for housing benefit fraud
A benefits cheat who lied that she was a struggling single parent but sublet her council-funded flat and made £64,000 has walked free from court.Kenyan-born Gladys O'Brien was secretly living with her...
View ArticleJail for £65k benefit fraudster after slow investigation
A man who claimed he was so incapacitated he couldn’t put his own socks on was in fact working as a builder and kitchen fitter, a court has heard.Over a period of six years Keith Webster fraudulently...
View ArticleBenefit fraud sentence deferred
An Angus woman who obtained £25,000 in benefits after forgetting to tell the authorities she was married has been given six months to stay out of jail by making a sizeable dent in paying back the...
View ArticleSuspended sentence for £80k over-claim
A woman's “creditable” character helped save her from prison for a £80,000, 12-year benefit fraud.A Teesside judge said it was “a terribly sad thing” to see 62-year-old Gillian Edwards in the dock for...
View ArticleCouncil tax reduction fraudulently claimed
A woman who fraudulently claimed more than £3,500 in benefit she was not entitled to has been sentenced to a 12-month community order.64-year-old Anne McCrossan, from Brompton-on-Swale, had been...
View ArticleTax fraudster in HMRC jailed
A father of three who committed an “appalling” £40,000 benefit fraud while working as a tax adviser in an HMRC contact centre in Bradford has been jailed for 20 months.Amjad Khan, 37, evaded paying the...
View ArticleDeterrent sentence for illegal subletting
A housing officer who illegally sublet a council property she had never lived in has been jailed. (h/t tenancyfraud)Julie Miah was handed a 12-month prison term and ordered to pay £17,000 in...
View ArticleSuspended sentence for recidivist pensioner benefit fraudster
'Persistently dishonest' pensioner Ellen Lowe wrongly pocketed £23,000 in benefits over a four-year period.The 70-year-old told the authorities that she lived alone in Blurton and had stopped working...
View ArticleSuspended sentence for £56k benefit fraud
Great-grandmother Anna Sims wrongly pocketed £56,609 in benefits - after falsely claiming her husband lived in Spain.The 72-year-old told the authorities that she lived alone in Bentilee and did not...
View ArticleCelebrity stylist fined for illegal sub-letting
A celebrity fashion stylist boosted his earnings by illegally subletting his council flat while he was away working for Prada in Milan, a court heard.Marvin Maddix, 27, posted online adverts for a...
View ArticlePensioner rightly spared jail for benefit fraud
A lonely pensioner who slept in the same room as his brother's corpse for two years so he could claim more than £23,000 in benefits has been spared jail. Donald Pollard, 69, was arrested on suspicion...
View ArticleJihadi cheated benefits system
A jihadi whose gang intended to use an army of children for multiple terror attacks was allowed two council flats — one for him and one for his wife.Muhammad Abid, 27, was one of three men jailed over...
View ArticleEven more to this than meets the eye
A man who told the authorities who paid his £40,000 benefits he did not like to travel took 839 flights over nine years.Sahin Lim, 61, had five undeclared bank accounts that more than £420,000 went in...
View ArticleImmigrant was benefit fraudster
A kitchen porter who claimed thousands of pounds in benefits told officials “if you don’t catch me, I’ll keep doing it”, a court heard.Idajet Zenga, 61, claimed for employment and support allowance...
View ArticleBenefit cheat who scammed £75k claiming to be single mum jailed for 2 years
A benefit scammer whose £75,000 fraud was rumbled after a bitter row over her dead partner’s estate has been jailed for more than two years.The Daily Record told how Angela Clark lied about being a...
View ArticleGogglebox's Sandra is a sponger
This isn't illegal, but it should be.Gogglebox star Sandra Martin prefers being on benefits than being famous because it’s “less stressful”.The 55-year-old was forced to sign on again in February after...
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A £500k benefit cheat caught dancing to Michael Jackson while claiming she was heavily disabled has been ordered to repay £190,000 - or face extra jail time.Maribel Milligan, 54, was jailed for three...
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A mum who swindled £25,000 in benefits must pay back the cash or face a year in prison.Dishonest Janet Trewin, aged 55, carried on pocketing money for three and a half years even though she was sharing...
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