Maribel Milligan sentenced to a 3-year jail term for falsely claiming benefits of over £500,000

Maribel Milligan sentenced to a 3-year jail term for falsely claiming benefits of over £500,000

News Unknown   10:24

Every day thief, one day for the owner. A woman named Maribel Milligan has been found guilty and sentenced to 3 years imprisonment for defrauding the British government of over £539,000. For about 11 years Milligan scammed the benefit system by falsely claiming to be disabled, as she claimed that she could only make use of one of her arm, while the other half of her entire body was totally paralysed, but was caught dancing to Michael Jackson’s popular song ‘bad’. During the dance session, the lady was caught raising up her arms and clapping in the air.

A court heard she had turned the top floor of her home into a massage parlour, which was only accessible via a steep flight of stairs.

Also despite claiming suffering, she also had homes scattered around the country - including pads in her native Venezuela.

According to Teesside Crown Court it was said during her trial that her “laughable” excuses for the deception were so unbelievable they sparked laughing from jurors during her week-long December trial.

Teesside Crown Court was told how the 53-year-old lived a “lavish” lifestyle, with trial pictures showing her outside the Eiffel Tower and dancing at a dazzling marriage ceremony.

The lady was found to be unlawfully making claims to 7 different benefits, and was caught wallowing in the sea and riding bike.

Though during the trial, she was seen sitting in a wheelchair for sentencing after a GP wrote a letter claiming she did have some health problems.

Via video link, Judge Howard Crowson said: “It was quite incredible to see you stepping swiftly from a chair and dancing with your husband.

“You portrayed yourself at the trial as the victim - a person wronged.”

Nevertheless he condemned her for the “sophisticated” fraud, in which she even blamed her carer at one stage for the con.

Judge Crowson stated that “It was simply to protect your false reporting.”

Milligan’s fraudulent lifestyle was uncovered by a whistle blower who contacted the benefit fraud hotline. Which was later followed up with a prolonged investigations that took over three years.

 “Clearly this lady had perpetuated this fraud for some time but clearly the jury saw differently,” said Lynda Bryce from the Department of Work and Pensions.

In total, Milligan creamed off £539,907.43 from 2002 by claiming hardship and severe disability.

Though, the lady has some kind of difficulties, the degree of evidence gathered indicates that her situation was not as bad as she claimed.

Notwithstanding the fact that she claimed she could only walk 20 metres before experiencing excruciating pain, she was snapped engaging a collection of physical activities.

And Judge Crowson questioned why someone with such difficulty moving around would build a massage parlour on the third floor of her home at the top of “steep” stairs.

And despite her denial, the Judge added: “She was clearly running a business.

“She was deceiving everyone.”

Meanwhile, Milligan was amassing a substantial property portfolio consisting of cheap houses, which included homes in South American, Durham and Luton.

She had one Venezuelan home from the outset of her claims in 1994, the court heard, while she got others from her ex-husband.

Among her biggest deceptions was from Hammersmith and Fulham Council, which she took around £170,000 from despite not permanently residing there.

But the court claims the authorities knew of her dishonesty - with that council even sending her to Scotland for respite care.

“Technically she was not living constantly in Hammersmith and Fulham, but social services knew that,” claimed the defence.

“There’s no evidence of vehicles or holidays.”

But despite defence suggestions of suspending Milligan’s jail sentence, Judge Crowson said her health wasn’t bad enough to avoid custody.

Ben Reid, from the CPS’ specialist fraud division, said: “While Maribel Milligan had a genuine disability and was entitled to some support, she deliberately went about claiming more than £500,000 of taxpayer’s money.

“Through careful analysis of the evidence, the prosecution was able to demonstrate how these fraudulent benefit claims continued over a significant period of time.”

Mother 46 rapes her daughter’s boyfriend aged 13

Mother 46 rapes her daughter’s boyfriend aged 13

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A court has been told how Elain Goodman aged 46 raped her 13-year-old daughter’s boyfriend. According to her the awful act took place in the car after the teenage boy sneaked out of his parents’ home at the midnight to meet her.

The lady however expressed her regression as she said she was "truly, truly hurt" by her actions and pleaded guilty to the offence.

However the lady walked free from court after her lawyer said putting her behind bars was not the answer.

James Liguor told the judge his client was sorry and "hurt to the core by how much she hurt so many people".

The lady’s arrest was done following a tip off and later charged with fourth-degree rape after Smyrna police received a report claiming the woman had sex with a minor.

As if that was not enough, she went further to exchanged text messages with a friend saying the boy “is so cute” and had a “nice a** body”, according to court documents.

The boy had snuck out of his home early morning on March 15, 2015, to meet with Goodman around 1am until 4:30am where they engaged in intimate acts inside her car.

The boy at one point told the Children’s Advocacy Center that Goodman kissed him and undressed before they had sex, reports New York Daily News .

Police recovered DNA evidence from Goodman’s vehicle, clothing and the cell phone she used to communicate with the boy.

Goodman wept in court, acknowledging that her actions “hurt people,” which was “terrible.”

"I know sorry is just a word, but I really am," she said.

Deputy Attorney General Denise Weeks-Tappan said the mother only thought about herself without considering the boy’s well-being.

“The crime has affected the victim in many ways,” Weeks-Tappan said. “He's hurt, embarrassed and it is affecting his schooling.”

She was sentenced to two years of probation and ordered to attend sexual disorder counseling and to be registered as a sex offender.

This teenage boy raped a 12-year-old girl till she started begging for ‘morning-after pill’ in a clinic

This teenage boy raped a 12-year-old girl till she started begging for ‘morning-after pill’ in a clinic

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How it terrible it is to hear a teenager s3xually assaulting a 12-year-old over and over in her own particular home until she was compelled to ask for a ‘morning-after pill’ at a clinic.

The rapist identified as Jack Simpson, aged 18 has been convicted and sentenced to 12 months youthful wrongdoers’ institution. Simpson conceded to the crime saying that the crime was done on the premise the sex was consensual.

However, the judge at his trial focused on that the casualty was excessively youthful, making it impossible to assent.

The court was told how Simpson met the teenager via social media (Facebook) in September 2014, and the match got together face to face a month later.

It was also revealed to Burnley Crown Court that they first had intercourse in March 2015, despite the fact that Simpson, then between the ages of 16 and 17, and knew about her age.

The intercourse proceeded for the following four months at different homes

Irrespective of the claim the victim made saying that they are “just good friends” social workers was still able to notice some kind of unwholesome practices going between them and warned Simpson to stay away from the little girl.

Prosecutor Paul Brookwell said: “This came to a head in August 2015 when the victim attended the Brook Clinic asking for emergency contraception.

“There was a disclosure made about the relationship with with Jack Simpson. That was when the police became involved.

“There was a disclosure made about the relationship with Jack Simpson. That was when the police became involved.

“Even knowing of her age, she said the sexual relationship with the defendant began in March 2015. This continues for a four-month period.

“She did say the sexual activity stopped once Mr Simpson had been warned off by Social Services.”

Simpson, of Barnoldswick, Lancashire, conceded assaulting a an under aged who is less than 13 years old on the premise the sex was consensual.

He acknowledged it had happened as often as possible yet denied it happened each time they met.

Jeremy Coleman, extenuating, said a specialist's report demonstrated Simpson was juvenile for his age and did not fathom the impact his activities would have on his casualty.

Be that as it may, Judge Jonathon Gibson said the young lady, who can't be named for legitimate reasons, was excessively youthful, making it impossible to assent and Simpson recognized what he was doing wasn't right.

Passing sentence, he stated: “You knew the victim was 12-years-old during the period you were with her and you knew it was wrong to have sex.

“Even though a girl of 12 may consent to intercourse the law is there to protect children from having intercourse when they are too immature to make that decision.”

Simpson was additionally requested to sign the Sex Offender's Register for a 10-year period and made subject of a five-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order which restrains his contact with kids.

It will surprise you how a married taxi driver and a father of two from Liverpool raped his male passenger

It will surprise you how a married taxi driver and a father of two from Liverpool raped his male passenger

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Wonders shall never end! A father of two whose name is given as Khaldon Mohammed, from Liverpool, asked the casualty "do you like d**k?" before “suddenly" unfastening his pants and forcing man into lecherous act.

Mohammed, a taxi driver was said to have constrained a male traveller to play out a s3x follow up on him as he drove his taxi.

The driver, 30, assured at Liverpool Crown Court that the traveller was the one who stimulated his s3x drive that forced him to accept "out of curiosity".

In any case, he was imprisoned for six-and-a-half years on Monday after a jury indicted him, the Liverpool Echo reports.

Amid a three-day trial, prosecutor Arthur Gibson told the court the casualty had called a companion instantly after the excursion and said to her: "I need you."

Mr Gibson in his statement stated: "His voice was shaking, he went silent and then became hysterical, screaming down the phone 'I've been raped."

His companion called police and when officers arrived, a policewoman portrayed the man "crying hysterically" and spewing as he reviews what happened.

Mr Gibson asked the jury for what valid reason, if Mohammed was coming clean, the man "feigned distress".

It was told the court that the traveller got into Mohammed's taxi in 2015 following a night out, and was tipsy yet "not so drunk that he did not know what he was doing."

The man narrated to the police that Mohammed had started discussion, however the traveller couldn't get message from the back so was welcome to move into the front traveller seat by the driver.

Mr Gibson stated: Mr Gibson said: “The usual banter took a strange and what is clearly now a sinister turn, because the defendant started to ask him about his s3xual orientation and came out with the question ‘do you like d**k?’”

He said while the journey lasted, Mohammed "suddenly" unfastened his pants, "pulled" the man's head down and "constrained him" to play out a s3x demonstration.

Mr Gibson went further to state that the driver pushed the casualty away when they stopped at red traffic lights, since individuals were around, before pulling his head down once more, saying that, after Mohammed completed, the journey finished and the man got out and kept running into his home.

However, when Mohammed was arrested, he told the police the casualty over and over put his hand down his pants and grabbed him without wanting to, however demanded no s3x demonstrations occurred.

The court heard Mohammed, who worked for private contract firm Delta, later changed his story and guaranteed a consensual s3x act had occurred. He said he had been "embarrassed" to let it be known and dreaded "losing my wife and kids."

Mohammed, from Toxteth, Liverpool, answered: "I was curious, I said ‘okay’. At the same time I was in shock. It had never happened to me before."

At the point when asked whether he constrained the man to do anything without wanting to, Mohammed stated: "No, no way."

The jury took around five hours to reject Mohammed's cases and he was sentenced by Judge Clement Goldstone, QC, instantly after the decision was returned.