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Area manager for VOSA admits benefits scam
VOSA AREA MANAGER James Dorman admitted a £30,000-plus disability benefit fraud over a 16-year period, when he appeared before Liverpool Crown Court last week.
Dorman, of Crosby, pleaded guilty to five counts of obtaining services by deception and one of fraud between 20 October 1992 and 13 May 2008.
The court was told Dorman repeatedly claimed he was barely able to walk in order to claim a series of disability cars. In reality, he was rapidly rising up the ranks of VOSA; and by the time his lies were exposed, he had been appointed an area manager in Liverpool.
PhilipThlly, defending, said Dorman was in a position to repay the full amount he received.
Adjourning the case until 26 October for presentence reports, Judge Adrian Lyon indicated that assuming repayment took place, there would be no immediate custodial sentence.