Carer and widow secretly buried dead man in rockery - so they could claim his benefits - Adam Aspinall, John Siddle

Boqer-Ore Adie and Rebekah Ladan Sturdey secretly buried Geoffrey Sturdey at a religious sect's communal farm after his death in 2008 - and went on to claim £77,000

 

A carer who secretly buried a dead man to claim his benefits is facing jail for a second time - because a plummet in gold prices means she can't repay the stolen money.
Boqer-Ore Adie, 44, covered up the death of Geoffrey Sturdey, 60, for nearly five years - by working in cahoots with his WIDOW.
The pair secretly buried Mr Sturdey in the in the rockery of a religious sect's communal farm in west Wales after he died of natural causes in October 2008 and brazenly went on claiming his state benefits.
Adie and Rebekah Ladan Sturdey, 57, were jailed for 20 months earlier this year after a court heard they raked in more than £77,000 through the scam.
Now Adie faces a return to jail after claiming that she can't repay her ill-gotten gains because of a plunge in gold prices.

 

    

Pa Geoffrey Sturdey: The 60-year-old died in 2008

A proceeds of crime hearing at Swansea Crown Court was told that she had a treasure trove of £70,000 in gold coins and cash in the wake of Mr Sturdey's death.
But Adie said she had sold the gold and only made £37,545 due to a fall in prices. And she said she couldn't get hold of the remaining £8,571 in time for the deadline this week.
Judge Paul Thomas said he would give her a further three months to come up with the missing money - or face a fresh 12-month prison sentence.
Adie and Sturdey were jailed in February for wrongly claiming benefits after hiding Mr Sturdey's body in a makeshift garden grave.
Officials became suspicious after thousands of pounds of disability allowance and pension credits of were paid in Mr Sturdey''s name.
Sturdey and Adie admitted fraud and conspiracy to prevent his lawful and decent burial.
Carmel Adie, 25, who also lived at the farm, was given a nine-month jail sentence suspended for a year with 150 hours unpaid work after admitting preventing Mr Sturdey’s lawful burial.

Jailed: Carmel Adie

At a sentencing hearing in February, Swansea Crown Court heard how authorities who inquired about Mr Sturdey’s whereabouts he had “gone travelling in Europe”.
The court heard Mr Sturdey, the defendants and others were involved at the farm in a “hybrid” religious sect based on judaism and the Old Testament.
The sect members, who called Mr Sturdey Shamar (Hebrew for “keeper” or “guardian”), expected Jesus to return to earth seven days after his death.
Mr Sturdey’s body was eventually found buried near a polytunnel on the farm in 2013 by Dyfed-Powys Police following an extensive £20,000 search involving aerial photographs, ground penetrating radar and forensic archaeology.
Around £6,000 in cash was also discovered.

Culled from the Mirror