Immigrant who earned £100,000 jailed for using fake passport
HARDWORKING immigrant Abimbola Olusanya has been jailed for a year and faces deportation after taking employment in the UK illegally.
Gloucester Crown Court heard the 40 year old failed to observe immigration restrictions between May 5 last year and June 4, while working for Crest Nicholson.
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jailed: Abimbola Olusanya.
He also admitted using a fake UK passport to gain the job, along with being in possession of a passport and a driving licence with improper intention.
The Nigerian national had entered the UK in 2004 with a six month visa and got a passport in a fake name of Dayo Akinola that enabled him to get work.
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Prosecutor Anna Midgley told the court he had earned more than £100,000 for the work he had carried out while here.
Defending Sarah Jenkins said he was currently in contact with the Home Office over a permanent visa, having married a British citizen last year. The couple have a three-year-old together.
She said Olusanya, of Oak Drive in Dursley, was hard working and had supported his family while in the country.
The court heard Olusanya had admitted having the fake name in police interview and originally said he was trafficked into the country, but later retracted that.
Recorder Michael Selfe said: "Although we have heard about sums of £100,000, I don't sentence you in regard to that as you did the work.
"The criminality of this was getting the by means of a false document. Using a false document is of considerable importance to the security of the UK and breaches of those orders requires an immediate sentence to prison." The court previously heard that Olusanya, who was jailed for 12 months, had deprived a UK citizen off a job themselves.
7 Comments
by sticks_stones
Tuesday, February 26 2013, 11:07PM
“How on earth can you defend a lying illegal immigrant is beyond belief - who's most probably been fiddling the system too - just because the Citizen tell us he is "hard working" that means nothing, send him back home complete with family - he's already proven what he is!”
by geraint2010
Tuesday, February 26 2013, 3:35PM
“Under present laws illegal immigrants are not allowed to work but they are entitled to benefits. Surely it would make more sense to deny them any benefits whatsoever and force them to work pending repatriation or being granted to right to stay? If Mr Olusanya had claimed benefits and taken up hate preaching no doubt he would still be roaming free.”
by Bonkim2003
Tuesday, February 26 2013, 2:52PM
“Why should these types be allowed to stay so long after their visa expires and then cause our system the agro and related costs of the legal processes and ultimately if the court allows - exit.
Surely UK Border Control has some thing to answer. Given this chap has now got a family, in all likelihood the dreaded European human rights law will kick in - are we digging our own holes?”
by sticks_stones
Tuesday, February 26 2013, 1:54PM
“He also admitted using a fake UK passport to gain the job, along with being in possession of a passport and a driving licence with improper intention.
The Nigerian national had entered the UK in 2004 with a six month visa and got a passport in a fake name of Dayo Akinola that enabled him to get work."
"Hardworking" - who are they trying to fool?
Send him straight back, he's not wanted nor needed - another lying illegal immigrant (god knows what else he might have been up to!) - "being in possession of a passport and a driving licence with improper intention."”
by supernova1
Tuesday, February 26 2013, 12:52PM
“Agreeing with both both of these opinions.
However, given that the many Polish and Bulgarian guys I work with are real grafters, and that our borders (I say 'our', but of course thanks to Liebour, they're not ours anymore) will be opened up to even more Eastern Euros next year, our current job situation will become dire.
The routinely lazy benefits scroungers will do everything they can, NOT to get a job, and will easily demonstrate how people like Abimbola have stopped him/her from obtaining gainful employment.
Consequently our liberal social workers will come down on the side of the jobless, and throw even more money at them, thus exacerbating the situation.
I agree, this fella's a grafter, and we should all admire him for his contribution, but the unpalatable truth is that we have limited opportunites, and they must be given to ours first.”
by georgette2010
Tuesday, February 26 2013, 12:20PM
“At least he was prepared to get off his butt and work for a living. I can think of many of my fellow countrymen and women who are not prepared to do that, only to leach off the state.”
by Lecorche
Tuesday, February 26 2013, 10:40AM
“OTT!
What will we achieve by jailing this man?”