A benefits cheat who claimed she could barely walk is facing jail after being filmed playing bowls.

Rebecca Peach, 49, pocketed almost £45,000 in incapacity benefits over five years, a court heard.

But she was arrested when Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) investigators, acting on a tip-off, secretly filmed her playing crown green bowls.

The footage showed her running around the green, bending down to bowl and bounding up and down the steps by the club house.

She was also filmed punching the air to celebrate a good bowl and sprinting across the green with a tape measure.

Peach, of Willenhall, West Mids., admitted fraud when she appeared at Wolverhampton Crown Court.

The judge heard that she had originally claimed Disability Living Allowance legitimately but had failed to tell the authorities when she got better.

Jamie Scott, prosecuting, said she had made fraudulent claims between March 2011 and November 2017.

Peach, who has no previous convictions, claimed she was in severe pain while walking, was regularly forced to stop and needed two crutches.

She told officials she never went out alone, needed help to cook and dress herself and had pain in her legs, knees and back.

But the court heard she played bowls at the Amery Unionist Bowling Club in Willenhall up to four times a week and was a member of teams in several local leagues in Wolverhampton and South Staffordshire.