Isn't it good to see that some benefit fraudsters put their ill-gotten gains to good use?

[sandyRoe]

No cider and plasma televisions for these two, rather the money was uses to buy one of their children a better education.

http://www.huffington...lliams_n_1835893.html

[daffy654]

What seems to make it worse with this couple is that they had a bloody good income anyway.
Benefit fraud is definitely wrong, but I can see how some might want to commit it if they are on a low wage, these thieves didn't have that excuse.

[sandyRoe]

I agree, Daffy. If a girl was sitting with a child on £100 a week you could see how she might be tempted. This couple could hardly claim poverty drove them to crime.

[marval]

I also agree, he was on a decent wage, so had no need to cheat. If you can't afford top notch education or posh pets you go without. Then you do the best you can. Surely it is better the child went legitimately to a local school than to a posh one, funded by claiming what was not theirs.

[Jemisa]

Doesn't matter what the money was spent on it is still fraud and deception. and they must be punished. How on earth did they get away with it for all that time??

jem.

[commoner]

I agree jem...and being poorly paid is no excuse for benefit FRAUD.....fraud is fraud is fraud and needs to be stopped.

It states she.....admitted to illegally claiming state benefits.......she wouldn't have walked into a benefit office and said she was pinching money from the state...bet somebody grassed, can't see the authorities sussing it off their own bat....;-)

[ladybirder]

Poor son, imagine his embarrassment.

[sandyRoe]

Now that the stream of easy money has stopped he's probably already at some bog-standard school. Poor little chap.

[Mick-Talbot]

He should have spent a bit of it on clothes....scruffy Snag.

[Dee Sa]

oh boy £1,500 per week and cannot manage ! the mind boggles !

[Eyeofmorbius]

Good use? This isn't nothing but greed!

Why didn't he use his or his wifes own money to fund his schooling?

Probably because they liked to use their own money on champagne, fast cars, exotic holidays a designer clothes no doubt!

[ladybirder]

EofM .... I think Sandy was being ironic ...

[parkie]

£1500 a week? When I retired 3 years ago I wasn't even getting that a month.
Kick 'em where it hurts. In their pockets.