The Boston Marathon bomb attack could have been paid for by taxpayers it has been revealed, as news emerged on Wednesday that dead suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev had been living on welfare.

The deadbeat dad and stay-at-home husband was receiving benefits as he was delving deep into the world of radical anti-American Islamism while his health aide wife Katherine Russell worked seven days a week to support him and their three-year-old daughter, reported the