A lapdancer who was earning £150 a night in a strip club carried on claiming benefits – tricking the authorities into believing she was a single mum with no job.
UK Cypriot Hannah Panayides, 35, claimed social security benefits for two years, despite working at Diamonds and Strings in The Parade.
The mother-of-one, who lives in Watford, also admitted working for an online adult entertainment company ‘Adult Work’ – where she could earn £100 a day.
Benefit fraud investigators at Watford Borough Council received a tip-off about Panayides last year and started to look into her lifestyle.
They found that in a period of 13 months, she was paid £22,000.
Panayides was summoned to court and as a consequence of her failing to attend the case was heard in her absence last week.
She was found guilty of fraud and fined £440 recently.
Watford Observer