Benefit cheat pays bach pounds 1; Court powerless to reclaim cash: from pounds 30,000 benefit fiddle.Byline: PAUL BEARD Paul Beard (October 14, 1904 - June 9, 2002) was an author and was the president of the College of Psychic Studies[1] based in London, England for sixteen years. The organization was devoted to finding in spiritualism evidence of life after death. A CHEATING mum-of-five who defrauded the benefits service of pounds 30,000 has paid back just pounds 1. The courts are powerless to make Marie Boswell reimburse them with any more, because she has no assets which they can seize. The 24 year-old, from Longfellow Road, Stratford-upon-Avon was likened to the benefit-fiddling TV soap family in Bread of the same surname. She was heavily pregnant when she admitted to the fraud at Warwick Crown Court and was given a 12 months prison sentence, suspended for two years in June. The judge told the greedy mum that no-one would want their baby to be born in prison. He also ordered her to begin 120 hours of unpaid work in October. Boswell had failed to declare large sums of money in various accounts - some of which was used to buy a pounds 21,000 Audi parked on the drive of her home. Prosecutor Harpreet Sandhu said she had defrauded pounds 33,366 in benefits, but added: "She has not got any money to pay it back. She has no realisable assets." Her barrister Sally Hancox said be-causthe Benefit Agency is refusing her any payments, Boswell has only child tax credits of pounds 159 a week for herself and her five children to live on. As a result Judge Charles Harris QC made the pounds 1 confiscation confiscation In law, the act of seizing property without compensation and submitting it to the public treasury. Illegal items such as narcotics or firearms, or profits from the sale of illegal items, may be confiscated by the police. Additionally, government action (e.g. order under the Proceeds of Crime Act. He said: "You seem to have come out of this with a profit, which is highly unsatisfactory." Her fraud has echoes of hit BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. comedy show Bread, which followed the ups and downs ups and downs pl.n. Alternating periods of good and bad fortune or spirits. ups and downs Noun, pl alternating periods of good and bad luck or high and low spirits of Liverpool's Boswell family. The programme ran for five years from 1986 and saw the Scouse scouse n. 1. A lobscouse. 2. a. often Scous·er A native or resident of Liverpool, England. b. often Scouse The dialect of English spoken in Liverpool. clan, led by matriarch Nellie, played by actress Jean Boht, get involved in a number of scrapes, including benefit cons. During the original hearing prosecutor Michelle Heeley said that Boswell had initially made a legitimate claim in 2001 for income support because she was suffering from depression and unable to work. At the time she declared that she and her children had no savings. Miss Heeley pointed out that savings of more than pounds 16,000 would have affected payments of council tax and housing benefit which she received, while savings of pounds 8,000 prior to April 2006, and later pounds 16,000, would have affected the payment of income support. In 2006 Boswell maintained that she and her family had no savings. In fact, she had a NatWest account with pounds 30,000 in it in May 2005 and four Bradford & Bingley accounts in the names of her children which, between them at various times, held between pounds 10,000 and pounds 26,500. CAPTION(S): Benefits cheat: Pregnant Marie Boswell leaves court at an earlier hearing. |
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