Psychic hubby cheat is jailed

[Carol]

A BENEFITS cheat claimed ?68,000 while his wife earned almost as much as a clairvoyant, a court heard yesterday.

Peter Holdridge, 61, failed to declare the money brought in by fortune-teller Kathleen, 68, between 1998 and 2004.

During the same period he claimed jobseeker?s allowance, housing and council tax benefit.

Meanwhile the couple raked in ?65,000 which they stashed in a joint building society account.

Holdridge was also ?wheeling and dealing? in the sale of caravans. He worked as a handyman on a caravan site and was ?paid in kind? with cigarettes and food.

He was caught after the Department for Work and Pensions received two anonymous tip-offs that Mrs Holdridge was working as psychic ?Kathy Starr? at a hotel room in Scunthorpe, Lincs.

She advertised her services in local newspapers, the court heard.

Holdridge, of Sutton-on-Sea, Lincs, admitted benefit offences and was jailed for nine months at Lincoln Crown Court.

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