Whats This About?

[sinderella]

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/benefits-cheat-who-hasnt-worked-13125708?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mirror_main

[jackthehat]

It's about a Benefits Cheat who has been prosecuted and the sentence he received.

[hereIam]

He's not that flamin' illiterate is he, knows how to cheat the system ?? Shocking ...

[jno]

lucky man. I imagine most community service is fairly light work anyway, unless they've reinstated chain gangs in Moorgate.

[Buenchico]

It seems self-explanatory to me.

When compiling a pre-sentence report, probation staff will ask an offender to consider how realistically he could cope with a particular sentence. Someone who's 64 might well say "Yes, I could do community work as long as it's within my physical capabilities. I wouldn't be able to dig ditches all day". That's roughly what seems to have happened in this case.

[Baldric]

The soft-arm of theLaw, yet again

[Caran]

Will he have to pay any of it back though?

[-SharonA-]

Pay it back!!! Are you mad!!!

[hazydaisy]

Do criminals now get to choose their punishment?

[sinderella]

no mention of paying it back
and how has he managed to not work for so long?

[mallyh]

i'd love to know how some people can claim all this money when many people with genuine troubles have a real struggle to get anything.the ones I read about who get thousands in benefits are quite often foreign .