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Subject: how many have taken place already ?
recurv11 10.05.14 - 09:39pm
Azuha Izegbune, 38, was the mastermind of the visa con - which saw fake weddings staged at registry offices in Birmingham, Stoke and Glasgow. * +
recurv11 10.05.14 - 09:40pm
The former security guard from Birmingham, West Midlands, was paid to arrange fake weddings between Hungarian and Nigerian nationals so they could remain in the UK.The weddings were arranged so both brides and grooms could secure European Area Residence Cards.Some of the grooms were flown in to the UK just hours before the fake ceremonies took place. * +
recurv11 10.05.14 - 09:41pm
Sentencing, Judge Elizabeth Stacey said Izegbune had undermined the UKs border controls and described him as 'the lynch-pin, the organiser and the fixer' of an eight-month conspiracy between December 2012 and September 2013.She said: 'You met registrars, bought plane tickets, acted as witness and interpreter and recruited Ivett Szanto to help you find Hungarian grooms and brides. * +
recurv11 10.05.14 - 09:43pm
The court heard the fake brides handed over an unknown amount of cash in a bid to win the residence cards - which would have given them the legal right to remain in the UK and Europe.But two of the weddings were stopped halfway through and a price list for a 7,500 ceremony was later recovered.It showed just a 20 budget was allocated for the wedding dress, rings and shoes. * +
recurv11 10.05.14 - 09:44pm
One of the fake brides, pregnant Nigerian Hellen Adedjumo-Dani, 31, took photos of herself with her fake partner outside McDonald's restaurants across Birmingham to try and make her relationship appear real, the court heard. * +
recurv11 10.05.14 - 09:45pm
She had images of herself in a dressing gown on her bed and even saved her fake groom as 'Babe' on her phone.She married her groom at a registry office in Birmingham in June 2013.Adedjumo-Dani, who is due to give birth in October, was found guilty after a separate two-day trial in March of this year and was jailed for 22 months. * +
recurv11 10.05.14 - 09:47pm
The Nigerian women were all warned they would face possible deportation once they complete their prison sentences.A Proceeds of Crime Act hearing is scheduled for Izegbune to be heard in September. * +
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