A wife has admitted telling lies about her husband's earnings to pocket more than £30,000 in benefits.Tearful Barbara Jones, aged 46, pleaded guilty to making false statements over four years to boost claims for housing benefit and council tax relief, a court heard.Jones and husband Andrew, also 46, were due to face a trial on more serious charges.But she pleaded guilty to the lesser offences and prosecutors dropped the case against her husband at Plymouth Crown Court.Jones, of Compton...
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