A benefits cheat, who claimed he didn't like travelling despite taking 839 international flights over nine years, has been jailed for 22 months.

Sahin Lim, 61, from Glasgow, had five undeclared bank accounts which saw transactions of more than £400,000.

During this nine year period, Lim, from Partick, illegally claimed around £40,000 in benefits, while travelling to countries such as Australia, America, Thailand and Ecuador.

On his medical assessment forms he claimed he "would only go outdoors if he had an appointment, that he did not like going outdoors alone, spends the majority of his time in his house and does not like travelling".

On April 4, Lim pleaded guilty to receiving £16,491 in income support, employment support allowance and jobseekers allowance, between April 1, 2005 and May 9, 2014.

Between April 25, 2005 and April 21, 2015 he received a total of £23,508 for housing and council tax benefit, all without declaring a change of circumstances.

The Department for Work and Pensions later learned that over the period of the charges, £426,625 went in to his undeclared accounts, and £423,436 left again.

He was spoken to on the phone in May 2010, June 2011, August 2012 and August 2013 and on each occasion claimed he had no savings, no other money in any other bank accounts and no other income.

In June 2012 DWP received information that Lim had large sums of cash and was travelling abroad extensively, while claiming benefits.