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LONDON (AFP) - A British childcare worker submitted such massively inflated pay claims to his employer that on one single day he claimed to have worked for more than 28 hours, a court was told.Jaswinder Bains, 45, put in the "blatantly dishonest" claims to help pay for a massive mortgage on his luxury farmhouse, Winchester Crown Court in southern England was told.
Bains worked as a self-employed social worker looking after the interests of children involved in state care and adoption proceedings, and claimed his pay by the hour from a government agency.
But during 2002 and 2003 Bains made massive claims for work he never carried out, prosecutor Andrew Macfarlane said.
On December 15, 2003, Bains is alleged to have claimed he worked 28 hours and 24 minutes, while he also said he worked every single day in six months except Christmas Day.
Macfarlane ridiculed this idea.
"What a day that must have been, if he was truthful," he told the jury of the Christmas Day break. "What must it had been like? Firstly, you would have to introduce yourself to your children. Who is the man carving the turkey?"