Landlord cons council into giving him a home for 10 years

A man cheated Slough Borough Council out of nearly £50,000 after he claimed he needed a house despite actually being a landlord. Gavin Les...

"Psychic medium" was benefits cheat

A Kilmarnock-based psychic who calls himself Scotland’s Straight Talking Medium pled guilty to fraud. George Wyllie, who travels the world...

Grandad squirrels away money, claims benefits

A grandad has been spared prison after committing benefit fraud by failing to disclose he had money in the bank while pocketing handouts. ...

Suspended sentence for social housing fraud

A fraudster who pretended to be the nephew of a dead man in a bid to take over his council home has been given a two year suspended prison s...

Light sentence for £20k benefit fraud

A benefit cheat pocketed thousands in handouts he was not entitled to by secretly working as a scrap man. Arthur Ferguson claimed he was o...

Wealden's fraud team reports savings of over £400k

Wealden District Council’s counter fraud team saved the authority more than £400,000 in the last financial year. The team investigated 69 ...

Benefit cheat caught training dogs at Crufts must pay back almost £11k

A dopey disability benefits cheat who posted pictures on Facebook exhibiting dogs at Crufts has been ordered to pay back almost £11,000 of h...

Recorded benefit fraud costs £1m a week just in northern Ireland

£1m a week. That is only in northern Ireland - and only what they know about. Benefit fraud in Northern Ireland cost the public purse more...

Councils' fraud team stops nearly £4.5m frauds

Nearly £4.5million in tenancy and Right to Buy fraud has been stopped in Ipswich and East Suffolk in the last year, shock new figures reveal...

Ethel McGill, benefit fraudster, jailed

A woman from Runcorn who has spent the last 12 years pretending her dead dad was alive to claim his war pension has been sent to jail. Des...