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Illegal immigrant who conned Attorney General may stay in Britain
Topic Started: Apr 9 2010, 04:57 PM (31 Views)
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Loloahi Tapui convinced Baroness Scotland that she should employ her as a cleaner, even though she had no proper documentation saying she could stay in Britain.
In her Tongan passport, the 27-year-old had a fake stamp for which she paid £180 to a man known simply as “Alex the Russian”, which purportedly allowed her to remain.
Lady Scotland insisted she had scrutinised Tapui’s passport and documents before allowing the younger woman to work for her.
Tapui claimed they had not discussed her passport and that the Labour peer had “never” asked her about her legal status.
Yesterday, a jury at Southwark Crown Court took just an hour and a half to decide that Tapui, and not Lady Scotland, was lying.
After conviction, it emerged that Tapui had left a previous job at a contract cleaning company after a "disagreement" with a manager and was sacked from earlier employment in a care home after being accused of stealing cards from elderly residents.
The Tongan, who will be sentenced in four weeks, showed little emotion as yesterday’s guilty verdict was returned but looked relieved to be given bail.
She had already pleaded guilty to having a false stamp in her passport and overstaying in Britain. She was cleared of possessing the stamp with intent.
Tapui has been tagged and will have to adhere to a curfew while awaiting sentence; she faces a prison sentence and the possibility of deportation.
However, she may be allowed to stay in this country because she is married to a British-born Serbian lawyer, Alexander Zivancevic.
They met in 2003, shortly after she arrived in the UK on a tourist visa and married in an Anglican church in 2007.
They share a home in Chiswick, west London, not far from Lady Scotland’s home.
Although Tapui was an illegal immigrant when the couple got married, the ceremony was legal because they got married in a church.
They went to a vicar in Hounslow who inspected her passport, complete with counterfeit stamp, to allay any suspicions that it could be a bogus marriage.
An immigration source said Tapui wrongly applied for a marriage visa after the wedding, but was supposed to have left the country and applied before the marriage took place.
A decision has yet to be made on whether the visa will be granted. If it is allowed, Tapui would be on a two-year probation visa and then could be entitled to stay indefinitely.
If she is given more than a 12 month prison sentence, the judge could decide that she should be automatically deported. She would then have the right to appeal.
Tapui’s illegal status was disclosed in the media last September and Lady Scotland – referred to in court by her married name Patricia Mawhinney – immediately fired her.
Giving evidence during Tapui’s four day trial, Lady Scotland spoke of the “hurt” when she found out.
The peer said she had been shown a passport, a Home Office letter and had repeatedly emphasised the importance of Tapui having a legal right to remain.
However, Lady Scotland’s failure to take any copies of the documents she said she had been shown by Tapui led to a £5,000 fine from the UK Border Agency.
Judge Nicholas Loraine-Smith warned Tapui of the “very serious” nature of her crimes as he said: “You have been convicted of a fraud upon Patricia Mawhinney and you are an overstayer.”
Tapui will be sentenced on May 7.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/7571966/Illegal-immigrant-who-conned-Attorney-General-may-stay-in-Britain.html
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It would be very embarrassing for the government if she was allowed to stay.

I suspect that they will do everything in their power to deport her as they wouldn't want her selling her story to the press as this would likely cause even further embarrassment to the stupid cow who thought she could get somebody on the cheap and get away with it!

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