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”
the wisard
its simple , politics is all about filling the pot to fund everything but how do we get the money back into the pot emmm income tax , vat ,council tax fines ect , each sector will also try to support its self BUT there is away to help everyone which is ::: between wall st , canary wharf and Tokyo 30 trillion transactions are made weekly ranging from 100 to 100 million it a world wide tax or levy of 50p per trans action would sort out the worlds problems
George Duckworth
Cant believe this is happening in Britain people starving the old freezing. The only place that will be safe is in prison. Three meals a day and a nice warm bed.government will better. Get there fingers out and start. Billing more prisons like think we r going to need them.
dave hall
I lost 4 weeks because some cunt DWP set me up to meet his targets, cunts, all of em.
Louis
Fucking burn the rest of them down; poor guy – vile
dave hall
They sanctioned me because i refused to walk 20 miles to work at 4am, Its like 1890 and more worse to come, new proposals to come in mean MWA from day 1.