| DanaC |
03-11-2012 06:34 AM |
ZenGum, genius.
Here's my wierd, ior...at the very least fucking depressing, news. From a couple of days ago:
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A benefits cheat who used taxpayers money to fund his Russian wife's breast implant operation before faking his own death has been jailed for 32 months.
Stephen Kellaway, 54, scammed £43,622 in housing and council tax benefits on a string of London properties - despite having nearly £280,000 stashed in various undeclared bank accounts.
Croydon Crown Court heard the former psychologist claimed he was a single parent on income support and created false tenants to claim the benefit from councils in Hammersmith and Fulham, and Richmond in west London.
But investigators began looking into his affairs in 2008, suspicious of the large amounts being claimed.
Later that year, the former psychologist, his wife Nelli and his step-daughter Natalia travelled to Moscow, where the women underwent plastic surgery and cosmetic dentistry.
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Aside from the fact that he's a sponging twat, who adds to the general anti-benefits atmosphere, leading to unnecessary crackdowns on single mums who've made a few quid on the side to be better able to clothe and feed their kids, he did this so his wife and step daughter could have boob jobs??
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In 2009, Nelli flew back to the UK to be met by police and council fraud investigators.
The court heard Mrs Kellaway arrived clutching a funeral urn and carrying life insurance documents worth £1.7m, which it is believed she intended to cash in.
Mark Hunsworth, prosecuting, said: "She claimed her husband had died two days earlier and the urn contained his ashes."
In fact, Stephen Kellaway - possibly inspired by the story of 'Canoe Man' John Darwin - had bribed a mortuary working in Moscow to plant his passport on the body of a dead tramp and issue a fake death certificate in his name.
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This blioke has read way too many murder mysteries, I'm thinking.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/benefits-ch...222517966.html |
