Desperate man reduced to living in his car jailed for trying to get benefits he was entitled to

In a classic example of how Britain's most vunerable people are being treated by the Government, a man who doused himself with petrol and tried to set himself alight in a job centre after a dispute over benefits he was due has been jailed for 20 months. Stuart Jones had a grievance against the Department for Work and Pensions and went to the job centre with a can of petrol at about 2:45pm  on 3 October, 2012.

Jones, 44, of Wrexham, but living in his car at the time, was owed £1,100 and told staff at the town's job centre he would set himself on fire unless he got it. He shouted: "I want my money," adding: "Nobody is listening to me. I am going to set myself on fire." The court heard that he held a lighter upside down and it failed to ignite. Staff raised the alarm and got blankets and a fire extinguisher as a precaution. Security staff calmed him down, police negotiators were called in, and he was in fact handed three cheques totalling £1,100 which, it was established, he was owed.

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