Illegal Immigrant/Baby Smuggling/Housing Fraud/Employment Tribunal Fun

From The Soaraway Sun, May 2008:

A WOMAN who smuggled a baby bought for £150 into Britain to get a council flat was jailed yesterday. Peace Sandberg, 40, got off her flight from Nigeria at Heathrow airport with the tiny lad and headed straight to a housing office to demand a dwelling. But council workers twigged when they remembered she had NOT been pregnant when she visited the office less than two months earlier.

Jailing her for 26 months yesterday for child trafficking, Judge Sam Kathkuda told the Nigerian she was “a stranger to the truth”... The Home Office will make a decision about whether to deport Sandberg after she is released.

Twenty-four months later, from The Evening Standard:

A convicted baby trafficker banned from Britain for 10 years was arrested today after she sneaked back in to try to claim thousands of pounds at an employment tribunal.

Peace Sandberg, 42, was jailed for 26 months after she bought a three-month-old baby in Nigeria for £150 and tried to pass it off as her own to get a council house. After her sentence she was deported back to Sweden, where she holds Swedish/Nigerian citizenship.

But the former housing officer still pursued a race and sex discrimination claim against former employer the Peabody Trust — and turned up in London today at the start of tribunal proceedings.

Police were informed by the trust and arrested her...