A BENEFITS cheat has been jailed after he was caught pretending he could not walk.
In a real-life echo of comedy show Little Britain, Peter Dixon, 48, fooled doctors for years that he needed a wheelchair to get around.
But within minutes of leaving his GP’s surgery, he would ditch the chair to work as a landlord at a busy pub. He arrived at court on foot yesterday when he was jailed for a month for swindling £7,600 by faking his disability.
Dixon, now a delivery driver, had a genuine stroke in 2005 and needed round-the-clock care.
But Preston Crown Court heard that after a full recovery he began his scam.
Investigators acting on a tip-off saw him running the Fielden Arms in Blackburn.
Prosecutors said some footage they had of him “could have come from the comedy series Little Britain”, where he was just like Matt Lucas’s character Andy.
Sky News has some footage - which dates back to January 2009.
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