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Baroness's former cleaner jailed | |
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The ex-housekeeper of former attorney general Baroness Scotland has been jailed for eight months. | |
Loloahi Tapui, who had overstayed her student visa by four years, duped former Baroness Scotland into hiring her as her housekeeper. | |
The Tongan was found guilty of fraud at Southwark Crown Court, in London. | The Tongan was found guilty of fraud at Southwark Crown Court, in London. |
Tapui, 27, was sentenced to four months for fraud, four months for possessing a false identity stamp, and concurrently one month for overstaying her visa. | Tapui, 27, was sentenced to four months for fraud, four months for possessing a false identity stamp, and concurrently one month for overstaying her visa. |
In addition to this, she was also ordered to pay £1,600 prosecution costs and defence costs which are still to be calculated. | |
But the Tongan, who was paid £6 an hour, was cleared by the jury of possessing false identity documents with intent after a four-day trial. | |
Tapui, who knew she should have left the UK in February 2005, told a series of lies and convinced the former attorney general to welcome her into her Chiswick home, in west London, as part of her family in January last year. | |
Lady Scotland, who was fined £5,000 for failing to take copies of the documents her former housekeeper claimed showed she was entitled to work in the UK, told the court she "bitterly regrets" her mistake. |
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