Johnson/Maggies

Dominic Littlewood presents a series looking at the work of fraud investigators searching out benefit thieves and meets the people they are stealing from - the genuine claimants.

The fraud investigation team at Brent Council are shocked by a scam that totalled nearly 200,000 pounds, ran for eleven years and centred around a countess, a woman who could not stand daylight and a park cafe. Plus, how more than three quarters of cancer patients suffer financial hardship - but there is help at hand.