Crime pays

WITH REFERENCE to your article on Eileen Farquar (‘‘Fraud hero at 83’’, January 13), I find her an uneducated cheat and a liar. I presumed, (wrongly, obviously) that everyone knew that the Government has no money of its own. The money it uses, and sometimes abuses, is our money – the poor bloody taxpayer! Ergo, if anyone dishonestly obtains from the Government, be they illegal beneficiary claims, fraudulent expense claims etc, it is their fellow