Asylum seeker from Somalia exposed as benefit fraudster
Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 11:36 am
Swindler is handed four-and-a-half year jail term for 'professionally planned' benefit scam
Mother-of-six also conned Swedish government out of £50,000... and spent the money on holidays to Africa
Judge brands fraudster's manipulation of the asylum system 'cynical' and 'dishonest'
The mother-of-six, whose asylum application graphically described her brothers being shot dead in front of her, was later given UK citizenship because of the ‘appalling atrocities’.
On the day that Muse claimed that armed men stormed her family home in East Africa she was giving birth in Sweden.
The 38-year-old, who investigators suspect might actually be Kenyan, conned that country out of £50,000.
She spent the money on luxury living, flying between Stockholm and London to perpetuate her scam.
In Britain, she applied for every welfare benefit possible under her false name and claimed further UK handouts using the bogus identity she had adopted to secure a Swedish passport.
Yesterday she was jailed for four and a half years after a jury convicted her of a string of fraud charges.
The judge said the sentence would have been harsher but for consideration of the welfare of Muse’s children, the ‘real victims in this case’.
The court was told she cannot be deported because she is a British citizen. Last night there were demands that the Home Office, which is reviewing her status, remove her from this country.
Tory MP Philip Davies said: ‘This kind of scam brings the whole asylum system into complete disrepute.
‘It’s no wonder there is no confidence in the authorities to properly control our borders and stop our hospitality being abused.
‘The fact that this woman’s future status in this country is in any doubt whatsoever is unbelievable.
There can’t be one person in this country who doesn’t want her kicked out of the country and never allowed back.’
On her 2003 asylum application, she claimed militiamen targeted her family home in December 1998 because she was a member of a minority group.
‘They opened fire at us and then broke into our house by force,’ she said. ‘They shot dead my brothers Asad and Burhan. They died instantly in our presence.’
Besides the murder of her two brothers, she said her niece had been raped, tortured and beaten and that she herself had been gang-raped while three months’ pregnant, leading to a miscarriage.
The total included child benefit, child tax credits and housing benefit from various councils.
Judge Stephen Holt, sentencing Muse, told her: ‘One of the most serious aspects of this case is your cynical, dishonest manipulation of the whole system of asylum.’
Condemning her deceit, he said: ‘It was fraud from the outset. It was professionally planned. Your actions harm the people who really do need and deserve asylum.
‘All scams of this kind are deeply offensive to the public and undermine support for genuine refugees. It seems to have been a deeply cynical scam from the start.’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... dster.html
As my abo/dad always use to say beenta weey dereysa runta na wey gabisa meaning the truth comes out eventually.
Mother-of-six also conned Swedish government out of £50,000... and spent the money on holidays to Africa
Judge brands fraudster's manipulation of the asylum system 'cynical' and 'dishonest'
The mother-of-six, whose asylum application graphically described her brothers being shot dead in front of her, was later given UK citizenship because of the ‘appalling atrocities’.
On the day that Muse claimed that armed men stormed her family home in East Africa she was giving birth in Sweden.
The 38-year-old, who investigators suspect might actually be Kenyan, conned that country out of £50,000.
She spent the money on luxury living, flying between Stockholm and London to perpetuate her scam.
In Britain, she applied for every welfare benefit possible under her false name and claimed further UK handouts using the bogus identity she had adopted to secure a Swedish passport.
Yesterday she was jailed for four and a half years after a jury convicted her of a string of fraud charges.
The judge said the sentence would have been harsher but for consideration of the welfare of Muse’s children, the ‘real victims in this case’.
The court was told she cannot be deported because she is a British citizen. Last night there were demands that the Home Office, which is reviewing her status, remove her from this country.
Tory MP Philip Davies said: ‘This kind of scam brings the whole asylum system into complete disrepute.
‘It’s no wonder there is no confidence in the authorities to properly control our borders and stop our hospitality being abused.
‘The fact that this woman’s future status in this country is in any doubt whatsoever is unbelievable.
There can’t be one person in this country who doesn’t want her kicked out of the country and never allowed back.’
On her 2003 asylum application, she claimed militiamen targeted her family home in December 1998 because she was a member of a minority group.
‘They opened fire at us and then broke into our house by force,’ she said. ‘They shot dead my brothers Asad and Burhan. They died instantly in our presence.’
Besides the murder of her two brothers, she said her niece had been raped, tortured and beaten and that she herself had been gang-raped while three months’ pregnant, leading to a miscarriage.
The total included child benefit, child tax credits and housing benefit from various councils.
Judge Stephen Holt, sentencing Muse, told her: ‘One of the most serious aspects of this case is your cynical, dishonest manipulation of the whole system of asylum.’
Condemning her deceit, he said: ‘It was fraud from the outset. It was professionally planned. Your actions harm the people who really do need and deserve asylum.
‘All scams of this kind are deeply offensive to the public and undermine support for genuine refugees. It seems to have been a deeply cynical scam from the start.’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... dster.html
As my abo/dad always use to say beenta weey dereysa runta na wey gabisa meaning the truth comes out eventually.
