Revealed on Facebook, the bride of benefit-fraud

Posing in an elegant white dress and smiling for the camera, she looks every inch the perfect bride.

Hazel Cunningham then Posted photos of his Barbados wedding on your Facebook page so that your friends could see it in the happiest day of your life.

But unfortunately for her, local Council researchers were also looking at your photos.

Caught: Hazel Cunningham has been arrested after Council officials exposed it as a benefit fraud when they saw pictures of your wedding on Facebook

And discovered that Cunningham, 47-who said that she was a single mother, when in fact she lived with her husband – was fleecing taxpayers millions of pounds in benefits false claims.

She wrongly stated income support benefit and the benefit of the Supervisory Board at the same time as enjoying holidays in Turkey up to three times a year and a wedding Caribbean luxury habitação.

The Court of magistrates Folkestone, Kent heard that she said falsely benefits amounting to an average of 170 per week.

Cunningham, Ashford, Kent, nor notify the authorities of his salary maternity from your employer.

She was sentenced to 120 days in jail after pleading guilty to four counts of making false statements and a lack of notification of a change in circumstances.

And she was ordered to pay the money, a total of just under 15, 000.

She also was processed in 2009 for failure to declare who was working at the same time, claiming a total of 21, 000 for the benefit of disability, housing and Council tax benefits.

Peter Wood, the leader of Ashford Borough Council, which brought the public prosecutor, said: ' this case is another success for the Council to work tirelessly to ensure that taxpayers honest district Ashford aren't defrauded. The message is clear: people who commit fraud benefit will get caught. '

Condemnation Cunningham, magistrates said: ' you had previous convictions, have you ever lied to probation officer, denied his guilt until the last minute and you have also lied in court. '

Paradise: Cunningham was capable of supporting a luxury wedding in Barbados and holidays to Turkey despite claiming income support and housing benefit

Last year, mother of three Kim Stokes who professed to be a mother was caught outside after leaving slip on Facebook had a husband.

The 36-year-old told the Department of labor, and pensions that she was a lone parent, unemployed and separated from her husband.

But after fraud investigators found photos on Facebook showing Richard Stokes, her husband and their children enjoy family activities, she was towed to the courts.

Stokes had been wrongly for over 15, 000 in housing and Council tax benefits and income support for the previous two years, Telford magistrates court heard.

Deputy District Judge David Stott gave Stokes, Telford, Shropshire, a community of 12 months.

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