Jail for £197,000 Blackburn benefits cheat (From Lancashire Telegraph)
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Jail for £197,000 Blackburn benefits cheat
1:35pm Monday 22nd March 2010 in
A WOMAN who was brought up in Blackburn and used multiple identities to claim £197,000 in benefits and disability payments to fund an extravagant lifestyle has been jailed for four-and-a-half years.
Marianne Jonson was born a male called Robert Duxbury in Blackburn in 1960.
The court heard the 49-year-old, who later lived in Wembley in London, had previously been known by 10 other names, including The Countess Mariaska Romanov.
During the trial, at Brent Crown Court in London, it emerged she had falsified medical assessment forms, benefit applications, financial returns and a range of other documentation.
She also claimed she was paraplegic, but was recorded working in a cafe and walking her dogs.
The court was told she also claimed one of her alter-egos was her twin sister.
Comments(10)
retired one
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2:39pm Mon 22 Mar 10
disgusted tunbridge wells
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2:47pm Mon 22 Mar 10
etrib
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2:48pm Mon 22 Mar 10
Cool Lad wrote:Either your post is meant to be read as sarcasm, or you didn't read the report, or you a simply a tunnel-visioned racist fool. Where do you arrive at the conclusion that the person in question is an immigrant?
The sooner we deport these low-life members of society the better. . Bloody immigrants, leeches the lot of them. VOTE BNP EVERYBODY!! LOL
As for your comment, retired one, there is every possibility the appropriate application for recovery of the money will be made in due course following appropriate investigation.
Katie T
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11:14pm Mon 22 Mar 10
On a more serious note...'disgusted tunbridge wells', tbh I'm disturbed by your post: if you're entertaining ideas that rape is 'fun' then the Lancashire Telegraph might well have a duty to pass on your details so that you are known to the police.
Cool Lad
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11:36pm Mon 22 Mar 10
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Or it would have been the reply had the person caught been of an ethnic minority SIMPLES!
Katie T
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8:15am Tue 23 Mar 10
Black Clio Guy.
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11:45am Tue 23 Mar 10
Cool Lad wrote:Is that the inbreeding which has made you not read correctly? What kind of prison will they put this person in? Male one or Female. This person seems very confused about his or her idenity.
The sooner we deport these low-life members of society the better. . Bloody immigrants, leeches the lot of them. VOTE BNP EVERYBODY!! LOL
disgusted tunbridge wells
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2:45pm Tue 23 Mar 10
Katie T wrote:The only mention of "Rape" on here is by you
Cool Lad: If you want to send a Romanov into exile surely you'd be better off voting communist than BNP:)?
On a more serious note...'disgusted tunbridge wells', tbh I'm disturbed by your post: if you're entertaining ideas that rape is 'fun' then the Lancashire Telegraph might well have a duty to pass on your details so that you are known to the police.
Cool Lad
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6:35pm Tue 23 Mar 10
Black Clio Guy. wrote:Sorry can you repeat that in English please? Not much of guy are you assuming by your name you drive a black Renault Clio?
Cool Lad wrote:Is that the inbreeding which has made you not read correctly? What kind of prison will they put this person in? Male one or Female. This person seems very confused about his or her idenity.
The sooner we deport these low-life members of society the better. . Bloody immigrants, leeches the lot of them. VOTE BNP EVERYBODY!! LOL
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Bye keyboard warrior.
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Cool Lad says...
2:34pm Mon 22 Mar 10
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Bloody immigrants, leeches the lot of them. VOTE BNP EVERYBODY!! LOL