A window cleaner who had £90,000 hidden in secret bank accounts cheated the taxpayer out of £12,000 in benefits.

Kevin Power committed benefit fraud when he told Worthing Borough Council and the Department for Work and Pensions that he worked just as a window cleaner.

The 52-year-old failed to tell them that he was also a car dealer and had an extra £90,000 in undeclared cash in bank accounts.

Between 2008 and 2011 the 52-year-old bought and sold 26 cars at auctions, Worthing Magistrates’ Court was told.

Power, of Marine Parade, Worthing, admitted two counts of dishonestly furnishing false documents and one account of dishonestly failing to give prompt notification of a change in circumstances, contrary to sections 111A(1A) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992.

The court was told he wrongly received more than £12,000 in benefits for council tax and jobseeker’s allowance.

He was jailed for nine weeks.