London:
A woman in Britain had her case postponed because she was too fat to get into court.
The 43-year-old fraud suspect told officials she could not climb the stairs to a narrow doorway leading to the dock to face the 13 charges against her, according to The Sun on Monday.
Beverley Douglas instead sat outside the courtroom while Judge Roger Chapple agreed to adjourn the hearing so that she can be tried in a more accessible dock.
She is accused of pocketing thousands of pounds of state handouts while working as a bus driver and CCTV operator.
The Sun tracked Douglas to her ground-floor flat, where she denied any knowledge of last Wednesday's problems at old-fashioned Inner London Crown Court. She wheezed: "It's just been changed to another date."
The clinically obese suspect added she had no idea about any charges against her, before leaving her home, squeezing into her red Dodge Avenger and driving off.
Douglas, of Thornton Heath, South London, faces 13 fraud raps relating to benefits claimed between March 2004 and February 2009 while she was working, according to Sun.
The 43-year-old fraud suspect told officials she could not climb the stairs to a narrow doorway leading to the dock to face the 13 charges against her, according to The Sun on Monday.
Beverley Douglas instead sat outside the courtroom while Judge Roger Chapple agreed to adjourn the hearing so that she can be tried in a more accessible dock.
She is accused of pocketing thousands of pounds of state handouts while working as a bus driver and CCTV operator.
The Sun tracked Douglas to her ground-floor flat, where she denied any knowledge of last Wednesday's problems at old-fashioned Inner London Crown Court. She wheezed: "It's just been changed to another date."
The clinically obese suspect added she had no idea about any charges against her, before leaving her home, squeezing into her red Dodge Avenger and driving off.
Douglas, of Thornton Heath, South London, faces 13 fraud raps relating to benefits claimed between March 2004 and February 2009 while she was working, according to Sun.
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