Woman claimed 20k in benefits for her dead baby

A woman who pocketed more than £20,000 in benefits for her baby son, nearly 10 years after he died, wept as she was spared jail. Tracey Henry, 46, claimed Universal Credit as a single parent on behalf of Jacob-Henry Green between 2017 and 2019. But baby Jacob-Henry sadly died in 2009, Southwark Crown Court heard. ‘When the claim was made in February 2017 the ground put forward was that she was a single mother of one dependent child living with…