A “homeless” beggar who commutes 220 miles from his flat to rake in money from people in Mayfair today appeared to defend his actions as “earning a living”.
Damien Preston-Booth, who has been dubbed “Supertramp”, claims benefits, recently went on holidays to Ibiza, Monaco and Paris, and uses a mobile card reader to take payments.
Today the 37-year-old was accused of conning passers-by by pretending to be homeless, and was said to have made £4,500 over the New Year alone.
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