Benefits fraudster 'too weak to lift a phone' busted after running 10k race and climbing over walls

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Benefits fraudster 'too weak to lift a phone' busted after running 10k race and climbing over walls.

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A man who told benefits assessors he lacked the strength to pick up his mobile phone or unscrew a bottle cap has been sentenced after fraudulently pocketing £7,625.68 in Personal Independence Payment.Ryan Scott, 39, claimed a workplace accident had rendered him virtually incapable of everyday tasks, including lifting a saucepan, sitting upright, or walking further than 20 metres.However, a DWP fraud investigation exposed his assertions as entirely false.Scott, from Torquay, Devon, appeared at Exeter Magistrates Court, where he was given a community order and ordered to pay £360 covering fines, costs and a victim surcharge.

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TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say Investigators were alerted to Scott's deception after discovering photographs of him completing a 10k race in July 2023, prompting the DWP to place him under surveillance from March 2024.The footage that followed proved damning.

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Scott was filmed on a building site bending down to plaster a wall with a trowel, apparently without any...

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