Benefits cheat caught out by Portsmouth paper interview

A benefits cheat came unstuck when he boasted to his local paper, the Portsmouth News, that he lived a life of luxury as a builder. Barry Marsh spoke to the paper after a coach he and his family were travelling on in Turkey overturned. He revealed that he had spent holidays in the country for seven years and even handed over his holiday snaps. But local job centre staff were amazed when they saw the article because Marsh was drawing £82 a week in benefits, having claimed he could not work due to a "bad back". Now he faces a jail sentence after pleading guilty to a £31,000 fraud. (Via Portsmouth News)