Shaun Rigby, 37, has been ordered to repay £36,000 after the DWP filmed him playing cricket and removed his benefits - with an independent tribunal upholding the decision Shaun Rigby lost a leg as a child (Image: Edwin Wilkes/SWNS)

A one-legged man who had his disability benefits stripped after the Department of Work and Pensions ( DWP ) secretly recorded him playing cricket for his local team has been told to pay back £36,000 to the government.

Shaun Rigby, 37, had his leg amputated below the knee following a tractor accident when he was just two years old and began playing the sport at seven. The sheet metal worker competed twice weekly for Allscott Heath CC in Shropshire, assisted by a runner and an umpire who held his crutch.

The Telford resident has received personal

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