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Benefits fraud DJ is jailed
11:13pm Wednesday 23rd July 2008
Comments (2)A MAN who claimed he was so disabled he could barely walk was a singing and dancing DJ who carried heavy equipment to and from his gigs.
Anthony Bradshaw fraudulently pocketed £70,336 from the taxpayer over a five-year period by claiming Disability Living Allowance, incapacity benefit and council tax benefit, a court heard yesterday.
But his fraud was uncovered when investigators became suspicious and tracked him using hidden cameras.
Yesterday, Bradshaw, aged 46, of Belmont Road, Hindley, pleaded guilty to three offences of failing to notify a change in circumstances and two of false representation.
He was sentenced to 12 months in prison by Judge David Aubrey, QC, at Liverpool Crown Court.
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Damian, Bolton says...
6:36am Thu 24 Jul 08
What i want too know is how di he persuade the benefits agency to give him Incap/I.S. Your supposed to produce doctors certificates of an injury or disablement, were they just palin blind or were they acting dumb and blind. Surely they should have done some double discrete checking on this guy. This gives other genuine claimiants a bad name now. No wonder the innocent get punished by the many.
God help us all genuine guys an gals out there who are really sick, depressed suicidal or suffering from a industrial accident. Gives all of us a bad name.