Glamour model exposed as benefits cheat after claiming £10,000 while working as a pole-dancer
By Daily Mail Reporter
10th August 2010
A glamour model has been exposed as a benefit cheat after claiming nearly £11,000 in benefits while working as a pole-dancer.
Carrie-Ann Knight, 29, failed to tell authorities of her secret earnings after being signed-off with depression when work as a baker dried up in 2006.
A year later the amateur model landed a job as a pole-dancer at Tiffany's Bar in Exeter - but she continued to claim incapacity, housing and council tax benefits for another 12 months.
Knights' own website reveals she also did work for 'lads' mags', keeping her earnings in secret accounts.
She was rumbled by a benefits assessor who thought she might be the same person as a locally well-known topless glamour model and lapdancer.
Knight, 29, who now lives in Prince Charles' model village of Poundbury, near Dorchester, was living in South Somerset when the offences took place.
Yesterday at South Somerset Magistrates' Court in Yeovil, she admitted falsely claiming benefits and was fined £535.
Dervla Nash, prosecuting, told the court Knight had claimed £10,882 before her arrest.
She added that all but £1,608 had now been paid back.
Simon Lacey, defending Knight, said his client mistakenly believed she could work up to 16 hours a week and still claim benefits.
He said she had tried to inform the authorities of her error by filling in forms saying she was 'self-employed' - but this was not picked up upon.
Magistrates told her: 'We consider this matter to be very serious as it represents taking money from taxpayers.
'But we have noted that you did not start out with any intention to defraud. You have also paid back a substantial proportion of the payments, which we consider shows remorse.'
Speaking after the sentencing, Knight said she no longer worked at the lap dancing bar - which closed down last year.
She said: 'I am relieved this is over because it has been going on for such along time.
'I have moved away from the area and am moving on with my life.'
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MODEL EXPOSED AS BENEFITS CHEAT WHILE WORKING AS POLE-DANCER
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Naughty assessor.Daanyeer wrote:
She was rumbled by a benefits assessor who thought she might be the same person as a locally well-known topless glamour model and lapdancer.
Knight, 29, who now lives in Prince Charles' model village of Poundbury, near Dorchester, was living in South Somerset when the offences took place.

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danyeer wa legend.lolNabeela wrote:Gaajo, leave Danyeer alone, he has been reporting weird and bizarre news since 1998, I have never seen anyone like him in this joint, he is completely weird and interesting at the same time.
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