Margaret Bergin, 73, from Ireland, claimed more than £227,000 from her dead father-in-law's pension over nearly 30 years with the fraud only found as aged 110 he would have been the oldest man in the country

A woman claimed her dead father-in law'spension receiving more than £227,000 and even got her husband to pretend to be the 110-year-old when officials visited, a court heard.