Bodybuilder claiming benefits caught in gym

An amateur bodybuilder must pay £35,000 after he was filmed pumping iron while claiming a back injury had left him wheelchair-bound.

Curt Gorog, of Huddersfield, tried to claim a £150,000 payout for an injury sustained in 2012 which he said left him disabled.

Until March 2016 he attended benefits assessments in a wheelchair and claimed over £50,000 in welfare payments. But a surveillance obtained by QBE Insurance and law firm DWF showed Gorog completing a weight routine in his local gym.

The presiding judge at Manchester County Court ordered Gorog to pay £35,000 in legal fees.