A couple from Farnborough, who claimed more than £25,000 Housing and Council Tax benefit from Rushmoor Borough Council have each been given nine month suspended prison sentences.
Mr Andrew Beck, age 42, and Mrs Sarah Beck, age 41, were accused of claiming more than £60,000 in both local authority and DWP benefits. The couple admitted 11 counts of benefit fraud, and were sentenced at Winchester Crown Court on Thursday 8th July.
The couple were sentenced to nine months in prison, suspended for two years. Mr Beck was also given a 150 hour unpaid work order and Mrs Beck a supervision order with a condition to attend a women's group.
In sentencing the couple, HH Judge Andrew Barnett, said that "total foolish criminality" of this sort would not be tolerated, and warned them that if they were "stupid enough to re-offend" or failed to comply with the unpaid work order or supervision order, they could face prison.
1 comments:
Good God.....how much do you have to steal to go to prison? and 150 hours unpaid work is pathetic!
This sounds better than working for a living! At minimum wage it would take 4 years 10 months to cover this and at national average wage it would still take 2 years 7 months.
They should at least have to earn it back at minimum wagr so a sentance of 10,118 hours between them on community srvice would be appropriate. It bet we are still paying them benefit
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