Scots woman cleared of benefits fraud over taking part in charity run after claiming she could 'barely walk'
cheating the benefits agency by running 5Ks dressed as Santa when she claimed she could "barely walk" has been cleared after a 13-month trial.A sheriff found Beverley Dott not guilty and told her he was clearing her because of the highly visible nature of the regular runs she had been doing.Dott's solicitor described her as "hiding in plain sight" when she completed two 5K Santa Runs in Perth, alongside hundreds of other fun runners.And Sheriff Keith O'Mahoney ruled that Dott would not have carried out such highly obvious physical activity if she had been "knowingly or dishonestly" trying to con the Department of Work and Pensions.However, he told Dott that there had clearly been a change in her physical condition and she should have