A 61-year-old jazz dancer who fraudulently claimed nearly £20,000 in disability benefits has escaped jail.

Terence Read said he was crippled by arthritis and barely able to walk but his condition improved following a hip replacement operation.

He failed to notify the change in his circumstances to the Department for Work and Pensions.

Officials later covertly filmed him dancing enthusiastically at a swing music night after receiving an anonymous tip-off that he was wrongly claiming Disability Living Allowance.

Read, of Blackley, Manchester, was caught on camera gliding across the dancefloor and spinning his dance partner around while being cheered on by crowds of onlookers at an event in his home city.

He was given a 12-month community order and ordered to complete 120 hours of unpaid work by a judge at Manchester Crown Court.