Former West Bridgford man, 57, jailed for benefits fraud after three-year investigation
A 57-YEAR-OLD man who falsely claimed benefits worth more than £22,700 is in police custody after a three-year investigation.
Warehouseman Peter McConnachie, who has lived in Keyworth, West Bridgford and Ruddington, claimed housing benefit, council tax benefit and incapacity benefit since 2006 but failed to declare wages.
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Rushcliffe Borough Council and the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) started investigating the claims in 2009. Investigators discovered he had been overpaid more than £22,700 after failing to declare he had been working.
At Nottingham Magistrates' Court on April 27 he pleaded guilty to seven separate indictments.
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McConnachie, who now lives in Burton-on-the-Wolds, Leicestershire, failed to attend his sentencing but has now been arrested and remanded in custody until his sentencing on Monday, November 26.
Comments
by roland
Friday, November 16 2012, 5:21PM
“Err, because he lives in Leicestershire? There might be a clue in there for you!”
by llamalamb
Friday, November 16 2012, 4:55PM
“Why is this article from the Nottingham Post on the Leicester Mercury website. Slack news day locally then?”
by disident3
Friday, November 16 2012, 4:07PM
“Yet some who steal a great deal more walk away free as a bird, then the MPs have nothing to fear.”
by mof_gedling
Friday, November 16 2012, 3:43PM
“maybe i could live in burton on the wolds if i cheat the system ?”
by smshogun
Friday, November 16 2012, 3:33PM
“So we have an investigation costing lord knows how much over three years, kept in prison and costing the taxpayers, and when he comes out he will undoubtedly sign on the dole again.
How about forgetting the prison sentence and make him pay it back with interest, and adding the cost of the investigation to it.”