<p><br /> A 61-year-old jazz dancer who fraudulently claimed nearly £20,000 in disability benefits has escaped jail.<br /> </p><p><br /> Terence Read said he was crippled by arthritis and barely able to walk but his condition improved following a hip replacement operation.<br /> </p><p><br /> He failed to notify the change in his circumstances to the Department for Work and Pensions.<br /> </p><p><br /> Officials later covertly filmed him dancing enthusiastically at a swing music night after receiving an anonymous tip-off that he was wrongly claiming Disability Living Allowance.<br /> </p><p><br /> Read, of Blackley, Manchester, was caught on camera gliding across the dancefloor and spinning his dance partner around while being cheered on by crowds of onlookers at an event in his home city.<br /> </p><p><br /> He was given a 12-month community order and ordered to complete 120 hours of unpaid work by a judge at Manchester Crown Court.<br /> </p>
