Chell Heath benefit cheat overpaid £15,000
A WOMAN who was overpaid more than £15,000 benefits has been handed a community order.
Gwendoline Leonard denied five charges of benefit fraud but was convicted after a trial at North Staffordshire Justice Centre last week.
The 58-year-old, of Springbank Road, Chell Heath, who was overpaid £15,173.10, was sentenced at the same court this afternoon to a 12 month community order with supervision and ordered to pay £250 costs.
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7 Comments
by mole10
Thursday, January 24 2013, 3:34PM
“If it is wrong for MPs or anyone else to fiddle any type of benefit, then how come only a few carried the can?
We let 600 MPs off for fiddling, why not the occassional person from Stoke?”
by stokeandvale
Thursday, January 24 2013, 2:59PM
“Unusual for Chell Heath to have Benefit cheats?”
by mowcopman
Thursday, January 24 2013, 11:47AM
“This is hardly a deterrent is it?”
by darragh07
Thursday, January 24 2013, 8:29AM
“Probably pay back about 50p a week,”
by Redtone
Thursday, January 24 2013, 2:43AM
“On the same day this rag goes all gooey about Charles giving his patronage to a 'quaint' potbank... is this the 18th century?
Only, some of us know a real parasite when we see one!”
by dougalcross
Wednesday, January 23 2013, 6:13PM
“@Mole: The fact that MP's were caught with their fingers in the jampot doesn't mean that this lady should get away with the same offence.
She has got away with it, as some of the MP's did. And it's you and I who foot the bill.
Don't know about you, but I'm fed up with funding people's expensive and unwarranted (and unlawful) lifestyle, whether they be MP's, deserted wives, royalty or ex-pat benefit cheats.”
by mole10
Wednesday, January 23 2013, 5:04PM
“Meanwhile, over at the MPs expenses inquiry...........”