A DRUG-dealing dad with 22 kids by 11 different women last night said he had to raise them on benefits because he could not work, due to a bad back.

Benefits dad-of-22 claims: 'I can't work because I've got a bad back'

Raymond Hull, 58, claimed he picked up the injury running around after his vast brood.

He said his condition meant he has not had a job for 10 years and had to rely on state handouts to support his family.

Hull, who has 31 previous convictions dating back 40 years, was caught with cannabis worth £350 when police raided his home in Springkell, Cumbria.

He insisted to police the drugs were for his own use to ease his pain. But on his mobile phone officers found a text telling a customer there would be a delay in supplying their drugs due to the birth of another son.
Hull claimed the £1,000 police found in his pocket was from selling a campervan.
But Judge Paul Batty QC dismissed his account as a “cock and bull story”.
He gave Hull an 18-month jail sentence suspended for two years after he admitted possessing drugs with intent to supply at Carlisle Crown Court.
The judge spared him immediate custody so he can help current girlfriend Emma McNeil, 26, look after their seven-month-old baby Barry. Hull was also ordered to obey a curfew for six months and pay £200 costs out of his benefits.
Afterwards Hull insisted his bad back was the price he paid for being a caring dad.
He said: “I’ve got a bad back so I can’t work. It must be from running round after all these kids all these years.
“I’ve only been married once. I’ve got five kids with one woman, three with another, three with another, and three with another.

“I’ve got two kids with one woman and little Barry with Emma. The others were just one each with different women. I was 16 when I had my first child. At first it was a one-off. Then it was a kid every year.
“It’s just my luck that every time I have a one-night stand the girl ends up getting pregnant. I love the kids though and if they want me involved in their lives I’ll get involved.
“I see 14 of my kids who know I’m their dad all the time.
“I see a lot of them in Carlisle. I always pop in to visit them or they come round for a Friday night dinner or Sunday dinner.”
Emma, who works in a bakery, said: “He doesn’t have a lavish lifestyle. He puts everything back into the kids.”