Tony Blair’s benefits cheat former bodyguard ordered to repay £38,000 or face more time in jail

TONY Blair’s scheming former bodyguard is being made to repay £38,000 to the taxpayer.

Vaughan Dodds, 46, was sentenced to two-and-a-half years’ jail last year for falsely claiming £56,000 in benefits.

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Former firearms cop Dodds, who guarded the ex-PM’s constituency home, and his wife Mandy lied and exaggerated illnesses while enjoying lavish holidays and having kids at private school.

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Dodds claimed his ME meant he could barely walk and his wife said she could not bear toilet paper being torn due to a hearing condition.

But they led active lives — even going on a motorbike course together — and had £180,000 in the bank.

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Teesside crown court ordered Dodds, of Langley Moor, Co Durham, to pay back the cash by the end of October or face another 18    months’ jail.

The Department of Work and Pensions said: “We are rooting out fraudsters.”