[joeysteele]

He was a controlling man, he had worked in the past and had even been in the army. Makes you wonder what he must have been like in the army.

The Judge who had heard all the evidence oddly enough didn't have some obsession as to the benefits he was getting.
He was seen as someone who saw the people in his life and his children too as posessions, to be controlled and for him never to be crossed.
That was his Mental/psychological issues clearly,being very generous to him as to that though.

What had triggered him to this, was the fact the other woman had left and taken her 5 children with her, he hated losing what he saw as those posessions, working or on benefits he would have likely done the same thing in order to get back at her.

Yes there is the income issue, as she would have likely been taking away the paying in of her benefits and wages too into his account.
Money and people as posessions were the main issues here but even had he been working full time, if the women had been working full time and one had dared to leave him in all likelihood he would have reacted the same.

He wanted 'his' posessions around him, to control them and make sure he had control of them too.
That is the rottenness of his thinking and personality,it is also why this likely happened not because of being on benefits.

It is also not really appropriate in my view anyway, to state this is because of the benefits culture anyway, others with large families, as has been said on here, don't act this way and certainly I would guess way into the top half of the 90+% of people on benefits wouldn't act this way either.

The man's mind was corrupt with really closed thinking,benefits didn't do that, it was how he was.