Mark Haugh, 57, told officials he could only walk a few steps without discomfort and would be left bed-bound for up to five days a week due to mobility issues.
Eventually, they discovered
an action-filled holiday photo album, with pictures of him on the back of a jet
ski and balancing on a perilous rope bridge at Giant's Causeway in Ireland.
Handing him a community
order, Judge Mark Horton said:
'One of the huge
difficulties about people who abuse the benefit system is it attracts huge
public attention, huge public disapproval and enormous bitterness. People who
pay their taxes, when they discover that someone who has a disability is known
to go on foreign holidays, on jet skis and cycling, they come to the conclusion
that their position in society is being abused by people like you' That is the
reason you are here. It is not acceptable in society. 'It was also appalling
not to disclose it.'
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