Mum of six jailed for bogus asylum claim

Mum of six jailed for bogus asylum claim

JAILED: Amina Muse

A MUM of six who lied about being gang-raped by armed militiamen in Somalia to claim asylum and benefits of more than 250,000 (GBP), has been sentenced to four years in prison.

Amina Muse, whose bogus asylum application graphically described her brothers being shot dead in front of her, was granted asylum because of the 'appalling atrocities.'

Besides the murders of her two brothers, she said her niece had been raped, tortured and beaten and that she had been gang-raped while three months pregnant, leading to a miscarriage.

Muse's web of lies were exposed when investigators found that she was actually giving birth in Sweden when the ‘atrocities’ took place. They also believe that the 38-year-old might actually be from Kenya.

In Britain, she applied for every benefit available under a false name and claimed further UK handouts using the fake identity she had acquired to secure a Swedish passport.

Yesterday she was jailed for four and half years after a jury convicted her of a string of fraud offences. The lenient sentence came after a judge deemed that a harsher sentence would be unfair to her children.

The court were told that she could not be deported because she is a British citizen, but there are calls for the Home Office to review her case.

Tory MP Phillip Davies said: “This kind of scam brings the whole asylum system into complete disrepute.

“It’s no wonder there is no confidence in the authorities to properly control our borders and stop our hospitality being abused.”

Between June 2004 and May 2010, Muse, from Neasden, North-West London, claimed £261,358 in income support, disability living allowance for one of her children and a carer’s allowance for herself.

She received a further £112, 985 in housing benefit from Camden Council for her four-bedroom hom

 

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