'Deal or No Deal' contestant admits benefit fraud after £95,000 win
A former Deal or No Deal contestant has admitted to six counts of benefit fraud.
Caroline Banana, 40, won £95,000 on the Channel 4 game show in 2011.
However, she did not declare her winnings in official forms, and continued to claim income support, housing benefit and council tax benefit.
Prosecutor Trevor Vernon told North Staffordshire Magistrates' Court: "The trigger to the whole episode was Miss Banana completing an income support application on April 12, 2011.
"To the question, 'Is there money owed to you or your children?' she ticked 'no' on that form.
"This was quite clearly not the case because in March that year she won the £95,000 and was awaiting payment of that money and that payment was due in May."
Banana had claimed a total of £6,147.92 in payments that she was not entitled to between April 8, 2011 and March 23, 2012.
Judge David Taylor ordered a pre-sentence report on Banana, ahead of passing sentence...
Caroline Banana, 40, won £95,000 on the Channel 4 game show in 2011.
However, she did not declare her winnings in official forms, and continued to claim income support, housing benefit and council tax benefit.
Prosecutor Trevor Vernon told North Staffordshire Magistrates' Court: "The trigger to the whole episode was Miss Banana completing an income support application on April 12, 2011.
"To the question, 'Is there money owed to you or your children?' she ticked 'no' on that form.
"This was quite clearly not the case because in March that year she won the £95,000 and was awaiting payment of that money and that payment was due in May."
Banana had claimed a total of £6,147.92 in payments that she was not entitled to between April 8, 2011 and March 23, 2012.
Judge David Taylor ordered a pre-sentence report on Banana, ahead of passing sentence...
- 4/25/2013
- Digital Spy
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