Mum-of-12 Cheryl Prudham's ex-partner Robert has been jailed after stealing change from parking meters
Mum-of-12 Cheryl Prudham has been in and out of the papers over the past few years.
Why?
Well not only does she have a staggering 12 children, but she said it's the goverment's fault she doesn't work as they make it too easy to claim benefits, claimed that she was saving her dole money to pay for a boob job, and even claimed she was after an NHS tummy tuck to boost her sex life!
And then there was the time she appeared on This Morning to talk about how she was "addicted" to having babies, and riled Holly Willoughby so much she lashed out!
And now Cheryl's back in the news, as her husband Robert was caught stealing money from parking meters to pay for a luxury family holiday!
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Robert Prudham, 33, was caught stealing change from parking machines around Kent while working as a money collector.
In total, he took £4,787 which he spent on a two-week trip to Menorca in Spain with Cheryl and nine of her children.
Shockingly, they flew out the day after he was fired for stealing.
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But while the 11 of them enjoyed the holiday in 2014, which in total cost £7,671, it all came crashing down after Robert admitted to theft and fraud.
He has been jailed for 14 months by judge Adele Williams, who said he breached a "significant high degree" of trust placed in him by his employers.
Cheryl was also due to be sentenced for handling £2,241 worth of stolen goods, but a TV link to Warrington Crown Court, where she now lives, couldn't be established.
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Since committing the offence and going on the holiday, Prudham has also been convicted of harassing mum-of-12 Cheryl, who shares six of her children with him, and shoplifting.
He was jailed for a total of 14 months, which includes nine months for the four theft offences and a five months consecutive sentence for fraud.
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But Cheryl, who gets around £40,000 a year in child benefits and once said she would turn to a [sperm donor for her thirteenth baby](http://Benefits mum Cheryl Prudham exclusive: 'I'll have baby number 13 with a sperm donor'), was spared jail, and was handed a four-month sentence suspended for two years.
She split with Prudham after he cheated on her whilst she was pregnant with her twelfth baby, but reunited with him and said he would have a vasectomy reversal so they could have baby no.13 together.
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