Our thanks to Steve for this. An extract:

“The grandmother used multiple false identities and fabricated disabilities to perpetrate the fraud.

She claimed to be blind and wheelchair-bound, but surveillance by investigators caught her driving and reading a newspaper whilst walking.

The scam was described as one of the biggest social security frauds ever prosecuted by the Crown Prosecution Service.

In 2020, Pomfrey admitted to 34 charges, including fraud, false accounting and making or supplying articles for use in frauds.

She was sentenced to three years and eight months in prison at the age of 65. [J4MB: Three years and eight months for stealing over £1,000,000. If that’s appropriate punishment, I’m a Crêpe Suzette…]”

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