Benefit cheat who claimed over £20,000 is caught zooming down a zip wire | ITV News Meridian (West)


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48 comments
  1. Shame on her. But meanwhile the boat people claim benefits AND work the black market and the the government do naff all

  2. Should never get a penny ever again, need to catch more people with AI now it's not difficult to look into bank accounts. When you do things right they rspe you, when do things wrong it's a slap on the risk

  3. Imagine if dwp bothered to check ALL claims . It seems, anyone whos fallen on hard times , WILL be punished and suffer.

    Most people can walk up a street and spot freeloaders , dealers etc yet the police and DWP cant . Baffles me

    Many like me will work 40 plus hours a week and scrape by , possibly get a foreign holiday , if we are lucky. Yet those freeloading get the huge tvs , descent houses , all taken care of free of charge , they can fake illness , get the partner as the carer or just keep having kids and claim they all have issues , 3 holidays a year , nice free car .

    To be fair , whos the daft one , why bother working

  4. Oh, big wow, I am so sick of this two-tier judgment system, and what sickens me even more is working-class people piling on and not watching how the elites are shrinking jobs, MPs are gifting contracts to their friends. Trump keeps playing with the markets, and his friends benefit financially. Why don't they root out the covid contracts that went to friends over apt UK companies, why don't they root out the 50 million that went on the Boris Bridge that was never built.

  5. Congratulations you caught 1/10.000.000 half the street behind me on the anxiety scam. They have no problem dolling up and heading out at weekends. The one wife has new Mini Cooper on motobility scheme and she has the brass neck to put her personal registration plate on car.

  6. From government to politicians to most benefits claims to pip cars to law makers all part of rip off Britain

  7. Only you could do is look at that minister and now he can’t do a job
    He’s just a waste of space anybody who can’t look after themselves cannot look after the country
    Look at the state of him overweight a beast. I can look after it or anybody else.

  8. What does she have to do now? Just repay the money. What a joke. The system is a joke. The judges are a joke. The Prime Minister there is a joke.
    This country has gone to pot everybody just take take take with Tax to the hill. Everybody seems to be making Not a profit but a killing.
    This is what this countries come to. We are people in charge. You don’t know what they’re doing. The system is broken.
    Like the nursery rhyme says London Bridge is falling down, they should change that to whole country has fallen down
    Actually, don’t blame her for claiming the money over two years my goodness the boat people get there every week
    Sorry, every day

  9. Are you going to prosecute the illegals because the billions they have taken from us. Eeehhh no bet you dont.

  10. How does one get a motability for anxiety, and gain a blue badge, but yet she was fit enough to travel the Globe and fit enough to ride dirt bikes and travel across the country with her car, many questions indeed and yet people get declined and they are bed ridden wired up to machines it raises many questions

  11. This is a minor case. There are people doing WAY WORST on benefits and in political office. I'm not gonna blame this woman when they are people ripping the welfare state for MILLIONS

  12. We never get the money back, prison is not a deterrent even if we had room in them, banning claiming any and all benefits in future is the onky sufficient way to stop this. Ive mulitple times directly seen and see still families kn generation 3 of frauds (wprkong plus claiming ALL sorts fo benefitd)

  13. Hang on one benefit frauding minute here, anxiety so " bad " she couldn't leave the house but got a mobility car award ? someone please tell me how stupid I am not understanding this logic.

  14. You can bet Citizen Advice Bureau helped her making the claim out of pure bias. It is either you are a deserving poor or underserved.

  15. This isn’t ok, but please , let’s get fining boris for his covid party , then all the elites , then the royals and then let’s get the peasants who spend just under 12000 absolute peanuts in comparison!

  16. Major money laundering at play by many MANY illegal people rinsing the system and they pick on Catherine from Cancoon. Not trying to justify her actions but isn't it amazing

  17. Funny how, if this was a non-white person, you whites would absolutely go ballistic. Yet when it’s a white woman, you show some disapproval—maybe find it annoying—but it won’t really bother you. It shows that the UK is fundamentally racist.

  18. Meanwhile my wife with chrones and shits blood daily looks after mentally unstable people and manages staff to do it properly and was denied pip even though we spend fortunes on medication and taxis for her to get to work

  19. How stupid are these people they boast about how much they get on benefits and pip then grass themselves up with videos 😂😂😂

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