Illegal immigrant with fake ID is jailed

Aug 28 2007

AN Iranian man caught working illegally at a Midland poultry farm after using a fake registration card to get the job has been jailed for six months.

AJudge at Warwick Crown Court recommended that Sadoohn Waysi, who admitted using a false identity document with intent, should be deported after serving his sentence.

Prosecutor Vicki Lofrese said that Waysi (27) an Iranian Kurd of no fixed address, first tried to get into this country from France in January 2005.

He was returned to France, but managed to get back here in the back of a lorry the following months and claimed asylum.

While his application was being considered he was issued with a Home Office registration card which specifically said on it 'employment prohibited.'

After his asylum application was turned down Waysi was told to report to the immigration authorities, but failed to do so.

Then in April last year, using a forged registration card which stated that he was entitled to work, Waysi got a job with Summers Poultry at Canks Farm in Tanworth-in-Arden, Warwickshire.

He continued working there until the farm was raided in a joint police and Home Office operation in July this year when Waysi and four other failed asylum-seekers were arrested.

Waysi, who had earned a total of £10,543 while working at the farm, said he had paid £150 for the fake card.

Peter Freeman, defending, said the other four men have already been dealt with and all jailed for six months.