main content Benefit fraudster convicted

A benefit fraudster pleaded guilty at Bromley Magistrates Crown Court, bringing the total prosecuted to 41 since the inception of Bromley Council’s partnership with Greenwich Council in April 2002.

Council Leader Stephen Carr said “ Fraud will not be tolerated by this Authority and this prosecution is evidence of our policy to pursue fraudsters vigorously.”

Earl Stevenson, 34, formerly of Churchfields Road, Beckenham, pleaded guilty to defrauding Bromley Council of benefits totalling nearly £3,000. He was sentenced to a 140 hour Community Punishment Order with £200 costs. The Council is currently seeking to recover overpayment of benefit.

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Notes to Editors:

• For media enquiries, please contact Luis Remedios on 020 8313 4886 or email luis.remedios@bromley.gov.uk.
• Anyone with any information about a suspected benefit fraud should contact (in strict confidence) the Fraud Hotline on 0800 169 6975.
• Bromley Council works in partnership with Greenwich Council’s Corporate Anti-Fraud Team.
• These prosecutions brings to 41 the number of prosecutions for the period to 31st August 2005. We have also been able to claim back over £234,000 in reward money for prosecutions, cautions, summonses and administrative penalties over three and a half years.