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Vivienne Groom had never been inside the dock of a criminal court when she stood, sobbing and shaking, before a judge last year.
She was accused by the government of unlawfully claiming nearly £17,000 in carer’s allowance while she juggled a minimum wage supermarket job with being the sole carer for her dying mother.
