Emma Pettett, previously known as Emma Addyman, appeared before Eastbourne magistrates earlier this month and was sentenced to 12 weeks in custody suspended for one year and ordered to undertake 150 hours of unpaid work in the community.
She got away with claiming Housing Benefit from September 2004 to April 2007 as a single parent even though she had failed to declare that she was the legal owner of the house where she was living. She received £10,889 in benefits to which she was not entitled.
In sentencing her, the magistrates said it was a planned offence that went on for a long period of time. They suspended the period of imprisonment and gave her 150 hours only of unpaid work because she has a duty of care towards her three children. She was also ordered to pay also ordered to pay full costs of the case amounting to £593.
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