A cheating pensioner has been ordered to pay back more than £70,000 he swindled over more than 20 years.Michael Harper, aged 68, was jailed for defrauding the benefits system – partly to impress a wife almost 30 years younger than him.Harper failed to declare ownership of two properties and the fact that he was married to a working woman.Plymouth Crown Court heard that investigators were unable to say exactly how much he had swindled, suspecting that he may have cheated the system...
