'Disabled' councillor claiming benefits caught walking dogs and working as lollipop lady

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Lying Carol Todd, 60, was exposed in secret video footage taken by undercover officers at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).

The councillor was claiming disability living allowance while working for Suffolk County Council. She has now admitted failing to notify a change in her circumstances.

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Cheat: CCTV footage shows Carol Todd has no problem moving around as a lollipop lady...

The video shows Todd working as a crossing patrol officer, taking dogs for a walk, putting petrol in a car, vacuuming a car and lifting shopping over an eight-month period.

Officials at the Department for Work and Pensions, who brought the prosecution, said she pretended she could not work because she needed a walking stick.

Todd has been coming under pressure to quit as a Babergh district councillor for Great Cornard (North), near Sudbury, Suffolk.

But the disgraced councillor defiantly insists she will not step down.

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..or walking the dogs

Last night Todd, of Great Cornard, said: "I failed to report a change in my condition but it was just an accidental mistake.

"I never had any intention to defraud anyone and I have no intention of resigning."

Todd, who is also a parish councillor, was given a one-year conditional discharge and ordered to pay £100 costs when she appeared before Sudbury magistrates.

A DWP spokesman said an undercover team filmed her as a patrol officer helping kids across the road after she had claimed a disability prevented her working.

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The benefits fraudster claims she 'forgot' to report a change in her condition

Anti-fraud minister James Plaskitt said: "Benefit cheats take money intended for the most vulnerable in our society.

"The public rightly get angry about anti-social behaviour and with their support we will track down the fraudsters."

Babergh Council brought benefit fraud cases involving a total of £115,000 in less than a year to court.

A spokesman said it was not duty-bound to dismiss Todd, who committed the fraud before she was elected seven months ago.

A spokesman for Suffolk County Council said that Todd worked for the council about 18 months ago covering for the school crossing patrol officer and added that ~she is no longer working for us.