Jail for deaf fraudsters behind £1m scam

Three profoundly deaf fraudsters who fleeced the taxpayer out of nearly £1million have been jailed for a total of more than 12 years. Paul Neal, 38, Stephen Dering, 39, and Russel Parke, 53, raked in vast sums from the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) from a series of firms and a registered charity. Neal and his wife Ethel, who is also deaf, even bought themselves a holiday home in Ireland with the profits of the fraud. Mrs Neal, 37,…