A 25-year-old fraudster has been sentenced to community service after pleading guilty to claiming benefits he was not entitled to.

Abdalle Omar Abdi, of Freelands Road, Oxford, was sentenced on Thursday at Reading Crown Court after he admitted claiming both DWP jobseeker’s allowance and housing benefit fraudulently between March 2012 and May 2013.

He was charged on January 22 with failing to disclose information contrary to section one of the Fraud Act 2006, which he admitted on the first day of his trial at Oxford Crown Court on September 23.

On Thursday he was handed a 12-month community order, a six-month supervision order and told to perform 250 hours of unpaid community service within the next 12 months.

£2,920 seized from his home was awarded as compensation equally between the Department for Work and Pensions and Oxford City Council.