250 Bangladeshi Immigrants Exploit Uk Benefits 'gold Mine'

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2383868/Bogus-ID-gang-let-250-Bangladeshi-immigrants-exploit-UK-benefits-gold-mine.html

/// ‘Although £10,000 is a lot of money, it is nothing compared to what you can rake in when you are British, which was like gold dust or a gold mine to these people … they were claiming everything they could.’ ///

This is just one more such case, it would be frightening to know what is really going off that hasn't yet been discovered, and here is Cameron busying himself with the petty 'Bedroom Tax'.

Even so given the very light sentences these fraudsters got, is it any deterrent for others not to follow suit?

[FredPuli43]

That, emmie, is not how the system and law works. The old idea of time off for good behaviour no longer applies

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

/// What is your theory why he got a lesser sentence than the others? ///

Perhaps because he freely admitted his crime.

[Gromit]

AOG,

Are you seriously saying that he would have got 8 years, but because he admitted it, he got a 12 month suspended sentence instead?

He was a minor player, and got a minor sentence as a result. It was not light, it reflected his minor role.