Couple who swindled more than £64,000 in disability benefits are caught on camera lifting heavy hanging baskets at florist shop
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• Arthur McCarroll, 58, and his wife Susan, 65, pleaded guilty to fraud
• Susan wrongly claimed more than £35,000 in disability benefits since 2002
• Despite claims she also managed to trade regularly at car boot sales
• DWP investigators caught them lifting heavy hanging baskets at shop
• Pair both given suspended prison sentences and had a curfew imposed
By AMIE GORDON FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 15:56 GMT, 26 March 2016 | UPDATED: 18:28 GMT, 26 March 2016
This is the moment a married couple who swindled more than £64,000 in disability benefits were caught on camera lifting heavy hanging baskets at their florist shop.
Arthur McCarroll, 58, claimed it took him four minutes to walk just three metres (9.8ft) and said he was so 'severely disabled' he was in danger of falling on a daily basis.
His wife Susan, 65, said she couldn't cook a meal and needed help going to the toilet as well as getting in and out of bed and chairs.
'High value fraud': Arthur McCarroll, 58, and his wife Susan, 65, (pictured leaving Dudley Magistrates Court), were eventually caught out after spending years fraudulently claiming disability benefits Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti