article_snippet: Mr Abbott swindled almost £70,000 in disability benefit by claiming Mr Abbott could barely walk .
article_snippet: A clairvoyant who swindled almost £70,000 in disability benefit by claiming Mr Abbott could barely was jailed after Mr Abbott was filmed working out in a gym.
article_snippet: Spiritualist Timothy Abbott, 53, conned the taxpayer out of thousands of pounds in disability, council tax and housing benefits along with Mr Abbott wife Jeanette, 46.
article_snippet: Spiritualist Timothy Abbott, 53 pocketed a total of £170,000 during Spiritualist Timothy Abbott, 53 16-year scam, including Mr Abbott taking £35,496 in incapacity benefit and £22,848 in disability living allowance.
article_snippet: Mr Abbott also admitted conning HMRC out of £9,532 by failing to pay income tax or national insurance contributions.
article_snippet: Meanwhile Mr Abbott wife falsely claimed £19,477 in disability allowance and £713 in incapacity benefit, along with £1,000 in council tax benefit, Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court heard.
article_snippet: his wife also failed to pay £37,000 worth of income support and conned Staffordshire County Council out of £44,000 in housing benefits.
article_snippet: Mr Abbott and Mr Abbott wife lived together in a modern £200,000 detached house in Stafford until He and his wife scam, which went on for 16 years between 1998 and 2014, was rumbled.
article_snippet: Mr Abbott - who admitted three counts of failing to notify the DWP of a change in circumstances, one count of making a false statement and one of falsely obtaining benefits by deception.
article_snippet: Mr Abbott - who's scam was rumbled after investigators filmed Abbott's scam working out in a gym and lifting dumbbells .
article_snippet: Mr Abbott - who (pictured on a rowing machine) also admitted conning HMRC out of £9,532 by failing to pay income tax or national insurance contributions .
article_snippet: he wife Jeanette also falsely claimed a raft of benefits and was handed an eight-month prison sentence, suspended for 18 months .
highlights_snippet: Spiritualist Timothy Abbott, 53, jailed for £170,000 disability benefit scam .
  
highlights_snippet: Clairvoyant was paid almost £70,000 in benefits while claiming Clairvoyant could hardly walk .
  
highlights_snippet: Clairvoyant wife Jeanette, 53, also falsely claimed thousands of pounds in benefits .
  