A team of benefits fraud investigators have disclosed details of some of their recent successes, including bringing to book an offender who was caught when footage was found showing her dancing at a wedding, while another was pictured being dropped into the North Sea from an RAF helicopter.
Maribel Milligan and Sandra Turnbull were both busted for their bogus benefit claims after investigations by the Department for Work and Pensions fraud team, it was reported on ChronicleLive. The team based at Tyneview Park in Newcastle began investigating Milligan after a tip-off from the National Benefit Fraud Helpline.
A trail of evidence revealed she had been living a lavish lifestyle while wrongfully claiming she was heavily disabled and claiming no fewer than seven benefits. Milligan, of High Street, West Cornforth, Ferryhill, County Durham, pocketed more than half a million pounds of taxpayers' cash. She was eventually convicted and jailed for three years.
