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| Baroness's employee admits charge | Baroness's employee admits charge |
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| Attorney General Baroness Scotland's former housekeeper has admitted possessing a false document, but has denied intending to use it for fraud. | Attorney General Baroness Scotland's former housekeeper has admitted possessing a false document, but has denied intending to use it for fraud. |
| Loloahi Tapui, 27, pleaded guilty at London's Southwark Crown Court to using a passport with a fake visa stamp. | Loloahi Tapui, 27, pleaded guilty at London's Southwark Crown Court to using a passport with a fake visa stamp. |
| But the Tongan denied intending to use it to establish facts about herself and to earn money as a cleaner. | But the Tongan denied intending to use it to establish facts about herself and to earn money as a cleaner. |
| Baroness Scotland, the government's chief legal adviser, paid a £5,000 fine over the matter last year. | Baroness Scotland, the government's chief legal adviser, paid a £5,000 fine over the matter last year. |
| The UK Border Agency said she took steps to check Ms Tapui's right to work, but had not kept a copy of documents, as required by law. | The UK Border Agency said she took steps to check Ms Tapui's right to work, but had not kept a copy of documents, as required by law. |
| Baroness Scotland apologised for what she called a "technical breach" of immigration rules, but opposition parties demanded her resignation. | Baroness Scotland apologised for what she called a "technical breach" of immigration rules, but opposition parties demanded her resignation. |
| Leave to remain | |
| The court heard that Ms Tapui pleaded guilty to having a false visa stamp in her passport, although the passport itself was genuine. | |
| Defending counsel Christopher Hehir said the stamp purported to be issued on 12 September 2005 and falsely claimed she had been granted leave to remain in the UK for three years. | |
| Baroness Scotland was fined £5,000 over the affair | |
| Ms Tapui denied intending to use the false document "for establishing, ascertaining or verifying registrable facts about herself", including her "identity and residential status". | |
| She also denied intending to use it to earn money by working as a housekeeper. | |
| Her trial on fraud charges will begin on 6 April. Baroness Scotland, who oversees criminal cases in England and Wales, will appear as a prosecution witness. | |
| Ms Tapui, who is on bail, left the court with her publicist Max Clifford. | |
| If convicted of fraud, she could face up to 10 years in prison. She also faces a charge of overstaying her visa. |