Nottingham Post commented Alcoholic had benefits stopped because he was in a coma

​An alcoholic had his benefits stopped because he was in a coma when civil servants wanted to interview him, a court heard. Stuart Divers, 41, was suffering from pneumonia and was in the intensive care unit of the Queen's Medical Centre, said Chris Saunders, mitigating. Divers, of London Road, Nottingham, admitted stealing two cans of Jack Daniel's and coke from Sainsbury's on Wheeler Gate on May 3. Mr Saunders told Nottingham Magistrates Court on Friday that he had committed the thef