'Bed-ridden' benefits cheat enjoyed exotic scuba trips Mrs Jones, who walked out on her marriage in 2010 after having an affair with her suba instructor, Udo Kefrig, claimed during the trial that her husband forced her to sign the benefit application forms so he could have the luxuries of which he dreamed. She maintained she had a genuine degenerative spinal condition but her "violent and controlling" husband had bullied her into working. He told me that was not fit for anything. He said I would never reach his level. He was up there and he viewed us as down there," she told the jury. He liked money. He liked big things, expensive cars like Range Rovers with personalised number plates, hi-fis, a nice house, everything we could not simply afford. She claimed that Mr Jones insisted on joining the yacht club even though the couple did not have a boat. Helen Guest, prosecuting, told the jury that from 1994 to 2010 the couple kept up the pretence to benefits officers that Mrs Jones was unable to work due to her crippling condition. In one official document, Mrs Jones wrote: "I am bed-ridden... my back condition is deteriorating... I cannot walk for more than 50 metres without stopping or feeling severe discomfort. I have problems with stairs and am also unable to open a bottle of wine. However, in 2000 Mrs Jones landed a job as a caretaker at a Ministry of Defence building in London while working as a head concierge elsewhere in the capital. Ms Guest said: "Mrs Jones was clearly capable of working - managing to hold down two jobs simultaneously for a significant period." When fraud investigators raided the couple's home in Ramsgate, Kent, Mr Jones asked: "What am I supposed to have done?" Mrs Jones admitted 10 offences of cheating the taxpayer and was found guilty on two others. Her husband, who now works as a paramedic, was convicted on seven fraud charges after the 11-day trial. The couple were bailed until they are sentenced next month.