Benefits Cheat Tracked Down By Sky Jailed An on-the-run benefits fraudster tracked down and confronted in Spain by Sky News has been jailed for three years. Norman Brennan jumped bail in 2008 and fled to the Costa del Sol after admitting a £120,000 benefit fraud. But the 70-year-old failed to return to face the charges until he was tracked down living in Malaga in October this year. The judge Mr David Aubrey QC said: "Your claims were dishonest through and through. Week by week, month after month, year after year you were stealing from the public purse. The amounts were large, the fraud persistent, prolonged, systematic and sophisticated.