One-legged cricketer stripped of benefits

A FORMER England disabled cricketer has lost his benefits after Government investigators filmed him playing for his local club.

- By Ed Chatterton

Shaun Rigby, who lost his right leg below the knee in a tractor accident aged two, took up the sport at seven.

Now 37, the dad of four still tries to play twice a week for Allscott Heath CC in Shropshire, with the help of a runner.

But last week the Department of Work and Pensions told stunned Shaun it had secretly followed him for weeks in a probe into his disability claim.

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