A JOINT prosecution led to a benefit cheat being given a curfew order. Andrew Pleasants, of Willingdon Avenue, St Leonards, admitted claiming £5,584.33 in benefits he was not entitled to when he appeared at Hastings Magistrates Court recrently.
The court heard that Mr Pleasants, 38, had been claiming income support, incapacity benefit, housing and council tax benefit but had failed to tell either the DWP or the Council that he started working in February 2008. Magistrates gave Mr Pleasants a three-month curfew order between the hours of 6pm and 5am and he was ordered to pay £60 in costs.
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Sorry, I think you missed a bit of detail out of your report there: you say this joker received a 3-month curfew and a fine of £60?
ReplyDeleteThe curfew covers a time when I would get back from work, eat, watch television and go to sleep for the night. Surely the most sensible time for a curfew would be during the daylight hours so he couldn't work and rip off the state?
I'm also really pleased that possibly a good few thousands of pounds of tax payers' money was invested in this prosecution for the hefty fine of £60, since he cleverly already stole nearly 100 times this much!
Bravo Madge!