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A jury took just half an hour to find Annette Bond guilty of conning taxpayers out of nearly £70,000 at the end of a week-long trial at Perth Sheriff Court.

A benefits cheat is facing jail after being covertly filmed doing 5k training runs despite claiming she could barely walk.

But a fraud investigation team set up secret surveillance which filmed Bond running 5,000m circuits from her home in Stanley, Perthshire, up to four times a week.Annette Bond pictured outside Perth Sheriff Court after being found guilty of conning taxpayers out of nearly £70,000 They found her guilty after being shown footage of Bond leaving her home in high- visibility running gear to do sub-30 minute 5k runs.

The 49-year-old spent almost a decade claiming 'enhanced' benefit payments due to a series of conditions she claimed made it difficult for her to stand up or even get out of bed He said Bond's confident running was at odds with the claims made about her conditions, including vertigo and dizzy spells.

 

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