Benefit Fraudster In Court Again For Secret Stash

A Peckham benefits claimant, accused of secretly having savings that would disqualify her from hand-outs, left court with an absolute discharge yesterday.

Adeyemi Aroloye, 40, (pictured) of Medina House, Rye Hill Park appeared at Camberwell Magistrates' Court, but had already been prosecuted by the Department of work and Pensions.

It is suspected friends working illegally used her identity and bank account for wages to be paid into – pushing her over the £16,000 benefits threshold.

She was charged with two counts of failing to notify the London Borough of Southwark of a change in circumstances between April 1, 2008 and January 22, last year, namely that she had excess funds in a Lloyds TSB bank account.