A couple who ran a £40,000 benefits swindle while sailing the world on a luxury yacht have been jailed.
Shashi Bacheta, 52, and Jeffrey Cole, 58, admitted a total of 20 charges connected with the elaborate fraud, which was played out over almost five years.
Bacheta swindled her way to a series of benefits claiming she was too ill even to walk while she was scuba diving in Kenya and planning to carry on around the world on her lover's £100,000 yacht, The Kismet.
She was given a 21-month prison sentence at Swansea Crown Court after the full details of the case were spelled out to a judge over a two-hour period.
Her lover, who was at the "helm" of the con, was handed a nine-month jail term.
As Bacheta was taken away to prison, her 28-year-old daughter Anju Bacheta cried: "Oh my God, that's my mother!"
She was then fined £500 for the minor part she played in the swindle after admitting fraudulently claiming several hundred pounds for being her mother's carer.
Judge Huw Davies QC gave Cole a shorter custodial sentence because of the smaller amount of just over £13,000 he had jointly claimed with Bacheta over their criminal period.
He used an inheritance to buy the luxury yacht, which was the springboard for the couple's sailing trips from where it was moored in Gran Canaria.
Passing sentence, the judge told him: "You were at the helm in a very real sense and set off to enjoy not only your own wealth but such money as you managed to get from public funds."
