A benefits fraudster who claimed £7,600 of taxpayer cash by saying he was ‘too weak to lift a phone’ got caught working in manual labour and entering a 10k running race.
Ryan Scott, 39, had been claiming disability benefits after telling the authorities that a workplace accident had left him so immobile he couldn’t carry out basic tasks like lifting a pan or walking more than 20 metres.
But an anonymous tip-off led Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) investigators to uncover photos of him completing the long-distance running race and bank records showing that he had, in fact, returned to plastering
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