benefit fraud has been given extra time to pay off the massive debt in £500 monthly instalments. A court has given Nadia Begley, 44, four more months to prove she can afford to continue making the direct debit payments from her bank account.
Sheriff Peter Hammond said that given the nature of the charge and the amount of money involved put the case “well and truly in the realms of a custodial sentence”.
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