Around the world on the taxpayer: Benefits-cheat model who said she was so poor she had to get free food from a mosque is jailed for swindling £50k to fund lavish holidays in Dubai and Hong Kong

Carina Reid, 32, who lived in a flat on Chelsea's fashionable King's Road in West London after buying it with a deposit of £20,000, had 19 bank accounts containing £180,000.

But she claimed more than £50,000 in housing and council tax benefits to help fund holidays to Hong Kong, Dubai, Spain, Portugal, France and Switzerland and meals at luxury restaurants.

 Reid, who also worked as a beautician, told the council that she had no savings and had taken no holidays between 2009 and 2014 - but was jailed for three years at Isleworth Crown Court yesterday for dishonestly claiming benefits.

Pictured: Reid at Cove Beach in Dubai (left), standing next to a Rolls Royce at Al Bustan Rotana hotel in Dubai (top centre), in a helicopter in Cannes (bottom), and posing in Dubai again (right).

source:dailymail