The Norwich Evening News is on the case of Karen Alexander, who used them in a campaign for better council housing while committing benefit fraud: she claimed she was single while she was living with her partner.
Over a six-year period she received an overpayment of £24,703 in council tax and housing benefits for her city council accommodation.
The fact that she was living with him only came to light when Alexander herself finally told the council her partner had moved out in 2008 and investigators then found they had in fact been living together for the past six years. The council is now claiming back the money and £1,000 has been repaid so far.
She got away with a 12-month prison sentence suspended for two years and an order to do 200 hours of unpaid work.
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