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Couple punished for £30k benefit fraud
A 37-YEAR-OLD man has been jailed and his wife ordered to do community service for benefit fraud.
Darren Roffey and his wife Alison, aged 36, both formerly of Chessington Way, West Wickham, had pleaded guilty to cheating Bromley Council out of more than £30,000.
Croydon Crown Court heard Darren Roffey had failed to declare three bank accounts which over a six-year period had more than £234,000 paid into them and carried on claiming housing and council tax benefits.
He was jailed for 14 months for wrongly claiming benefits totalling £26,561 between July 2001 and October 2004 and between March 2005 and May last year.
Alison Roffey was given a community punishment order requiring 120 hours of unpaid work and ordered to pay £1,000 costs.
She falsely claimed £3,698 in housing benefit from February to October 2004.
10:19am Friday 25th July 2008
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CommentPosted by: Me, here on 11:27am Fri 25 Jul 08
How greedy were they ?? not happy with earning and not paying tax but also had the nerve to claim benefits.They deserve what they got lets hope Bromley Council start proceeding to recover the loss - we have to pay tax so why shouldn't they ?
How greedy were they ?? not happy with earning and not paying tax but also had the nerve to claim benefits.They deserve what they got lets hope Bromley Council start proceeding to recover the loss - we have to pay tax so why shouldn't they ?
Posted by: c may, croydon on 1:13pm Sat 26 Jul 08
make this greedy selfish couple pay back double the amount they stole
make this greedy selfish couple pay back double the amount they stole
Posted by: ???, bromley on 6:51pm Sun 3 Aug 08
[bold]bold[/bold] [italic]italic[/italic] How can yuu divs say they are greedy they only did it to feed there children . also they shouldn't be putting fraudsters in jail and letting peados off and murderers off!!
Aswell as that they went over the limit for jailing darren so go home yuu f****** dics !1
How can yuu divs say they are greedy they only did it to feed there children . also they shouldn't be putting fraudsters in jail and letting peados off and murderers off!!
Aswell as that they went over the limit for jailing darren so go home yuu f****** dics !1
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