Woman jailed over Britain’s biggest benefit fraud said prison was like a ‘holiday home with gym, hair salon & manicures’
A WOMAN jailed over Britain’s biggest benefit fraud has boasted of her prison time being like a holiday home.
Tsvetka Todorova, 52, said she had enjoyed getting her hair and nails done inside.
She was nicked for her part in a Universal Credit scam that raked in more than £53million.
And she told media in her native Bulgaria of her time at HMP Bronzefield, Surrey: “I never felt like I was in a prison, it was like a vacation home.
“There is a gym inside. There is a hair salon, I got a manicure there.
“You can do your hair or make-up. I even visited an art course.”
Cops found £14,000 at Todorova’s flat in North London and she had stolen almost £300,000.
Last month, she was sentenced to three years’ jail.
However, as she had already spent 18 months on remand, she walked free from Wood Green crown court.
Four others involved in the fraud — who spent their loot on luxury holidays and designer clothes — got sentences of up to eight years.
But Todorova also told BNT News that the sums involved in the fraud could be even higher than reported.