Social worker ‘cheated taxpayer to feather her nest’

A social worker falsified care packages for disabled clients to cheat the taxpayer out of thousands of pounds and ‘feather her own nest’, a court heard. Valerie Baiyewu, 51, allegedly inflated the costs of caring for two men and rehoused them with business partner Ayodeji Aderounmu, 50. Jurors heard Aderounmu set up his own companies, Matrix AA Care Ltd and Triple AAA Care, collecting the massively hiked fees paid out to him by the London Borough of Merton. Authorities later…