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...
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5 comments:
A tale truely representative of modern day Britain.........sadly.
Is this the same woman?
S, to add insult to injury, she worked for a housing association, so this is the second time she has tried to scam her employer.
NH, yes of course, I'm not vindictive. I have now inserted a further paragraph from the ES article to make that clear.
She's sounds both naive and determined, bit like a 419er.....
@sobers - she went to jail for her scam, she was deported from the UK and denied re-entry forever after on parole (despite being an EU citizen), and then got re-arrested and sent back to jail when the authorities found out she'd illegally come back. Isn't that precisely the sort of thing you lot claim *doesn't* happen in Britain today?
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