An unemployed man who had not eaten for three days set fire to a job centre in order to get a hot meal in police custody, according to the Manchester Evening News.
An unemployed man who had not eaten for three days because his benefits had been stopped set fire to a job centre in order to get a hot meal in police custody, according to the Manchester Evening News.
Bee O’Brien, 49, set fire to the customer telephones at a jobcentre in Moss side after a row about his benefits.
O’Brien told police he would “commit a crime and get arrested. I need some food”.
According to the Evening News:
‘O’Brien, of Camelford Close, Hulme, admitted criminal damage, attempted arson, and using threatening words and behaviour when he appeared before Manchester magistrates.
Gina Clayton, defending, said: “His benefits had been stopped for some reason and he hadn’t eaten for three days. He was simply desperate for some food. He went to the job centre to get his payments and lost his temper.
“He was aware that if he was arrested he would have been given food at the police station.”’
O’Brien was given a 12 month community order and ordered to do 40 hours unpaid work.
Last month a disabled man took his own life after worrying about how he would manage once his benefits were stopped.
128 Responses to “Tory Britain: Man sets fire to job centre after not eating for three days”
dave hall
Wish i could get 26k
dave hall
It’s easy for em, targets not achived, set up a few people to meet em.
dave hall
More to the point, you have to have Net access to claim anything now, that costs.
interesting that job centers think cars run on air when they send people to jobs, they take no account of travel costs V wage.
John
Hey, Montgormery, you got a brain? This poor bastard did not eat for 3 days, don’t you have any sense of human respect, i don’t blame him for setting fire to them idiots, you don’t fix the economy by simply starving people, you get some new industries going, something that makes money! We have no jobs because the bloody idiots in governments sold everything off, giving this guy his 70 quid a week is not going to change your life mate, try tackling the billions we blow on unnecessary nuclear bombs and foreign hand outs to sovereign nations who told us 50 years ago they wanted independance but still beg for money!
John
Hey Erik why dont you go and sell your arse and buy a melon!