A benefits cheat who used handouts to pay for his wife’s breast enlargements then faked his own death to escape justice was finally locked up yesterday.
Psychologist Stephen Kellaway was caught after the Mail tracked him down to Thailand.
He had been living under an assumed name after swindling £43,000 in housing and council tax benefits.

Family holiday: Stephen and Nelli Kellaway during their trip to Russia
Kellaway faked his death during a family holiday to Russia, where his wife had breast enlargement surgery.
He bribed a Moscow mortuary worker with a bottle of vodka to place his passport on a dead tramp and got his wife to identify the body as his.
He later fled to Bangkok using a false passport in the name of a boy who had died, and lived off the rental income from his £1million London property portfolio.
The father of two planned to bring his family out to Thailand to live with him by cashing in three life insurance policies worth £1.7million.
However his time on the run came to an end when the Mail discovered he was alive and confronted him.



Caught on camera: Stephen Kellaway, pictured in Bangkok, faked his own death while visiting Russia with his wife Nelli before fleeing to Thailand
Thai authorities later deported the 54-year-old back to Britain where he admitted a string of benefits fraud and false documentation offences.
Yesterday, jailing him for two years and eight months at Croydon Crown Court, Judge Shani Barnes said he had carried out a ‘cynical and selfish plan’.
She said: ‘It struck at the very heart of the benefits system. People such as yourself who criminally steal from those who rely on benefits and from the taxpayers who pay for them, undermine that system and demolish its credibility.’
Hammersmith and Fulham Council, which brought the prosecution, praised the Mail for helping to bring Kellaway to justice, describing our role as ‘British investigative journalism at its very best


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