'Lashing out' social welfare to woman with no English 'an invitation to be scalped', says Cork judge

The judge said a prison sentence seemed inevitable as the accused had no means of paying for what she had taken.

There was an interpreter present at Cork Circuit Criminal Court for the case. File image

A Polish woman without much English did not let language become a barrier to carrying out fraudulent claims for social welfare, her sentencing judge said.

40-year-old Justyna Jozwiak of Convent Road, Doneraile, County Cork, pleaded guilty to multiple charges of claiming social welfare payments to which she was not entitled in respect of paying rent on a house.