Monday, August 04, 2008

Benefits of doubt?

Why did it take a tip-off to investigate Dawn Shackleton for benefits fraud when her family already has 230 convictions and has been evicted for rowdy behaviour!?!

4 comments:

  1. Anonymous9:27 pm

    At least she was British. Makes a change. £40,000? How does that make them Britain's worst family?Pretty small beer compared to this one at £925,000

    http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1506642.ece

    Dawn didn't produce her children's severed fingers in court either.

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  2. Anonymous9:29 pm

    Sorry that should have been

    http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1506642.ece

    Too much vodka you know! How unusual I hear you cry!

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  3. Anonymous9:31 pm

    Oh balls! No it isn't me, your stupid thing is truncating it! The last bit should be

    article1506642.ece

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  4. Anonymous5:00 pm

    xoggoth

    Your quoted piece from the Sun states that "Fakorede . . . holds joint British and Nigerian nationality". So, technically, like Ms Shackleton she is British although not, I suspect, a British indigene. Interesting and, I suppose, heart-warming in these days of fractured families, to see that her daughter is also in the family business. The Sun notes that "one of her daughters, 21-year-old Denise Shofolawe-Coker, was found guilty accused of laundering £70,000 of the stolen money."

    What do you want to bet that after the "pre-sentencing reports" and despite the "inevitability" of a custodial sentence both mother and daughter get banged up for less time than Dawn?

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