Scrounger, 34, who lay in doorways pretending to be homeless caught living at home with his mother in her £230,000 village house.
David Batt, would lay in doorways in Maidstone, Kent, pretending to be homeless so sympathetic shoppers would hand over their spare change.
In reality the man actually lives in a two-storey semi detached property said to be worth £230,000 in an attractive village, a court was told.
He was exposed when he appeared before Maidstone Magistrates’ Court accused of begging for the third time in just nine months.
He was caught with £19 in small change on King Street in the town last month.
The man then gave his address as a housing association property in Yalding – which is around seven miles outside the town centre.
Batt pleaded guilty to begging in court today and was fined £35.
He was also ordered to pay £85 costs and a £20 victim surcharge.
Maidstone town centre manager Bill Moss said Batt was well known locally.
He said: ‘This man is a habitual nuisance to residents, customers and workers in the town centre.
‘He has spent many months begging and received huge sums of money from local people.
‘This man sees begging as an easy way of making money.’
