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An elderly South London benefits fraudster who cheated taxpayers out of £1 million after falsely claiming to be paralysed for almost two decades has been jailed for 11 years. Emmanuel Bay, 68, claimed he needed the cash to pay for round the clock care but splurged the cash on building up a property portfolio worth over £1 million with his wife Nancy Bay Sloane, also 68. Judge Michael Wood KC branded Mr Bay the “most dishonest man” he had ever come across while sentencing him last Friday (May 26) and condemned him for his “utterly despicable” behaviour. Mrs Bay Sloane, whom the judge described as a “Jekyll and Hyde” character was sentenced to four and a half years behind bars. Mr Bay told Lambeth Council he had become bed-bound following a car accident in 1997 where he had suffered a serious head injury, which had also caused memory loss. He was paid almost half a million in direct payments by the council between 1999 and 2016. The handouts are intended to allow people to arrange t...