A Zimbabwean woman, Joyce Msokeri has been jailed in the UK the Grenfell Tower fire fraud. She claimed that she lost her home and husban...
A Zimbabwean woman, Joyce Msokeri has been jailed in the UK
the Grenfell Tower fire fraud.
She claimed that she lost her home and husband in the Grenfell
Tower fire. She was jailed for four and a half years.
Msokeri, 47, filled a room at Kensington's Hilton hotel
with donations after saying she was a grief-stricken victim of the disaster,
which killed 71 people.
Last month, Msokeri was found guilty of fraud and
possessing a false document. Sentencing her, Judge Michael Grieve QC said her
offences were "callous and contemptible, indeed disgusting".
"Your greed in taking advantage of the situation you
had created was insatiable," he added.
Msokeri, of Ambleside Gardens in Sutton, south London,
claimed goods including handbags and dresses, accommodation and cash handouts
worth a total of £19,000.
But prosecutor David Jeremy QC said she would have had
access to funds totalling more than £200,000 if other benefits she applied for
or could have applied for but did not receive due to her arrest are counted.
The court heard Msokeri concocted an elaborate ploy to
claim insurance on her fictitious partner's death.
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