UK Wedding News
15/01/2013
The sentence is the result of an investigation by our officers who stopped a wedding taking place at Downpatrick register office on 5 October 2011.
Ayesha Mullan, 26, had flown to Belfast that day along with an Indian man who she had met only twice before and travelled on to Downpatrick where the wedding was planned to take place.
Following her arrest, Mullan was questioned by our officers and admitted marrying other men in sham marriages both in the UK and India after meeting the grooms only briefly. She also admitted that she had been married to a British man since 2010.
The would-be groom in Downpatrick, 38-year-old Salauddin Daudbhai Bhadki was sentenced last year to 15 months in jail after pleading guilty to immigration offences at Downpatrick crown court.
After serving his jail term, he has since been deported from the UK.
Mullan pleaded guilty on 19 November 2012 at the same court to Conspiracy to Assist Unlawful Immigration and Bigamy and was sentenced today.
Andrea Anderson, UK Border Agency said: "This woman thought she could abuse the immigration rules and evade justice by arranging a sham marriage at a location where she was not known.
"As this case shows, Northern Ireland is not a soft touch for this type of crime and we will prosecute those fraudsters who facilitate illegal immigration as well as those who have no right to be in the UK."
(GK)
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Bride Jailed For Sham Marriage
A woman from Leicester has been sentenced to 15 months in jail at Downpatrick crown court for her part in an attempted sham marriage.The sentence is the result of an investigation by our officers who stopped a wedding taking place at Downpatrick register office on 5 October 2011.
Ayesha Mullan, 26, had flown to Belfast that day along with an Indian man who she had met only twice before and travelled on to Downpatrick where the wedding was planned to take place.
Following her arrest, Mullan was questioned by our officers and admitted marrying other men in sham marriages both in the UK and India after meeting the grooms only briefly. She also admitted that she had been married to a British man since 2010.
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The would-be groom in Downpatrick, 38-year-old Salauddin Daudbhai Bhadki was sentenced last year to 15 months in jail after pleading guilty to immigration offences at Downpatrick crown court.
After serving his jail term, he has since been deported from the UK.
Mullan pleaded guilty on 19 November 2012 at the same court to Conspiracy to Assist Unlawful Immigration and Bigamy and was sentenced today.
Andrea Anderson, UK Border Agency said: "This woman thought she could abuse the immigration rules and evade justice by arranging a sham marriage at a location where she was not known.
"As this case shows, Northern Ireland is not a soft touch for this type of crime and we will prosecute those fraudsters who facilitate illegal immigration as well as those who have no right to be in the UK."
(GK)
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