An Evri delivery driver who swindled more than a quarter of a million pounds by falsely claiming he couldn’t bend over has been jailed.

Paul Churchman was paid £235,000 in benefits alongside his wife Gemma after he claimed he could barely walk due to ‘agonising pain’.

At the same time, he earned £403,000 as a delivery driver for Evri, formerly Hermes, over 11 years, Maidstone Crown Court heard.

Despite making the equivalent of £36,000 a year between January 2013 and January 2024, he received £105,786 of housing benefit, £45,411 of income support and £38,404 in Personal Independence Payment (PIP).

He got this on top of £24,562 of Universal Credit, £9,589 in Jobseekers’ Allowance and £8,081 in Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), as well as a council tax reduction of £3,340.

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