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An unpaid carer threatened with prosecution for fraud after inadvertently breaching benefit rules has had a 拢1,300 penalty waived by officials after her case appeared in the Guardian.Clemency Jacques, who cares for her disabled son and elderly mother, said she was given the choice of paying the charge or risking police arrest and a court appearance after running up a 拢2,600 carers allowance overpayment.Jacques 鈥?who has described the offer of an administrative penalty as like blackmail 鈥?has now been told by the Department for Work and Pensions DWP that the charge will not be applied, though she must continue to repay the original overpayment.The former NHS psychologist
stanley cup becher , whose case was covered by the Guardian last month, is one of 134,500 unpaid carers repaying 拢251m in carers allowance overpaym
stanley spain ents that in many cases accumulated because of DWP administrative failures.Jacques, 43, of Brighton, said she was disappointed the terse DWP letter she received waiving the administrative penalty did not apologise for its treatment of her or explain why officials have reversed their original decision to threaten her with prosecution.She described the letter, signed by a senior DWP counter-fraud official, as really grudg
stanley mug ing . It had not acknowledged the distress she experienced after being interviewed under caution followed by months of waiting to see if she would be charged with fraud, she said. I can only assume the letter came on the back of the Guardian article and they were em Fjtn Good riddance to the work capability assessment, the cruellest social policy of modern times
During the three years after 9/11 that he wore his chains and orange jumpsuit, the most wretched moment for Moazzam Begg came after his first interrogation at Bagram in Afghanistan. Hooded, his arms and legs chained behind him so that his spine arched backwards, he received a visit from the men who had just told him he would never see his children again.They kicked him in the head.Thirteen years on, after his latest period of incarceration, Begg says that it was not difficult to comprehend why this was happening. I understood where the Americans were coming from, at Bagram and Guant谩namo, he says. I understood that they were reacting to 9/11. What is not so easy to fathom, he says in an interview with the Guardian, is why he has spent the last seven months in a cell in Belmarsh high-security prison in south
canada stanley London, facing first two terrorism charges, and then five more, arising from two trips to Syria 鈥?only to see the case evaporate when prosecutors announced on Wednesday that they were offering no evidence against him.The CPS declined to explain its decision, other tha
stanley kubek n to say it had recently become aware of relevant material that led it to realise that
stanley cup the chances of a jury finding Begg guilty were highly remote.It has since emerged that MI5 had neglected to hand over to police and prosecutors its minutes of meetings it had requested with Begg. He had explained that he was planning to visit the war-ravaged country 鈥?in part to investigate the agencys links with the As
