'Queen of Benefits' and mum of 12 Cheryl Prudham, already spared jail for using money stolen by her partner to pay for a family holiday abroad, has now had her court sentence reduced.

The 35-year-old, once said to rake in £40,000 a year from the state, was handed a four-month jail term suspended for two years, with a 35-day rehabilitation activity requirement (RAR) last week.

But today (Thursday, January 18), Judge Adele Williams substituted the RAR for 12 months' probation supervision.

She told the court she could not impose an activity requirement as it had not been introduced at the time of Prudham's offending.

The mum had admitted handling stolen cash in February 2014. Her then partner Robert Prudham thieved £4,788 from his bosses while working as a car park machine cash collector around Kent and south east London - including taking cash from machines at Darent Valley Hospital and Orpington, Bromley North, Eltham and Mottingham stations.

Cheryl Prudham then used just under £2,242 of the money to pay off the balance of an all-inclusive, fortnight holiday for herself, Prudham and her nine children in Menorca in May 2014.

She was pregnant with twins at the time and later had another child with Prudham. He is father to six in total.

In 2015, Ms Prudham told News Shopper: "Kids cost a lot of money and both me and my husband provide for them."

This video shows Cheryl and Rob Prudham at their delightful best when speaking to a newspaper reporter. Beware, it contains repeated and explicit swearing from the start which some people may find offensive:

The former part-time carer, formerly of Gravesend but now living in Warrington, was not at Maidstone Crown Court for her sentence to be varied under what is known as the 'slip rule'.

Judge Williams said: "Probation have very properly pointed out that when I made a rehabilitation activity requirement, that wasn't available at the time the offence was committed. It hadn't come into force.

"So I substitute 12 months' supervision for the RAR I did impose. To that extent, and that extent alone, my sentence is varied."

Rehabilitation activity requirements can involve an offender attending courses, undergoing drug and alcohol treatment or being subject to a curfew.

As part of the supervision order, Prudham will have to attend regular appointments with a probation officer.

The Prudhams were runners-up in our Great British Chav Off in 2015 when we asked who people would least like to live near between them and another criminal family.

Robert Prudham, 33, formerly from Maidstone but now living in Manchester, was jailed for 14 months for four offences of theft.

Over four weeks in January and February 2014, he stole notes and coins from car parking machines at a hospital, shopping centre and numerous train stations.

Prudham also admitted fraud in relation to him lying about having no previous convictions to obtain his job.