Iraqi asylum cheat who got £700,000 in benefits, three houses and private school

[Hitman]

An asylum seeker bought three homes and sent her son to a fee-paying school by illegally claiming more than £700,000 in benefits, a court heard.
Mahira Rustam Al-Azawi, 49, used a series of false identities to milk Britain's lax benefit system over eight years.
Although she never worked, she was able to purchase three properties - two of which she rented out - worth in excess of £1million.
Her 18-year-old son was educated at Colfe's School, in South-East London, where fees are currently £4,164 a term.
The fraud was uncovered only when Al-Azawi, from Iraq, successfully applied for a student loan to study civil engineering at Greenwich University.
When police raided her £800,000 detached home in Bromley, they found an 'Aladdin's cave' of false documents, including a selection of passports, identity papers and driving licences.

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Welcome to the United Kingdom, where entering is easy, cheating our system is easy and we're too blind to see it!

[-:Undertaker:-]

I wonder if she entered via the European Union border 'controls' (of which we have no control of our borders).

At a time when the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats are cutting benefits for hard pressed families, why are benefits and welfare not being prevented from going to immigrants? why are these people not being deported? ..or more importantly what we should be asking ourselves is; why are these people here in the first place? This is Britain, where the wrong is rewarded and the right is punished and taxed to the front teeth.

[alexxxxx]

I wonder if she entered via the European Union border 'controls' (of which we have no control of our borders).

At a time when the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats are cutting benefits for hard pressed families, why are benefits and welfare not being prevented from going to immigrants? why are these people not being deported? ..or more importantly what we should be asking ourselves is; why are these people here in the first place? This is Britain, where the wrong is rewarded and the right is punished and taxed to the front teeth.

lol where are these border controls that we have no control of?

have you ever been in a car from dover to callais? there are constant checks and you have to show your passport and documents or you won't get through. and if you are in a coach they make you get out and go through the terminal.

if they were an asylum seeker they probably got a plane to heathrow and then claimed asylum. if you are an asylum seeker you don't have to 'sneak in' because you have a right to security here and if you did you wouldn't get any benefits or housing because you would be completely off the radar.

[Wig44.]

The number of asylum seekers we accept should be: 0. There must be 50+ safe countries between here and the middle-east, including the entire EU.. asylum seekers are supposed to go to the nearest safe country. This really annoys me.

[dbgtz]

I still think they should just remove benefits completely
and tbh making them do work would be good too, and it will be easy to see if someone is using false identities because they couldn't show up for them all therefore they can cut them off and go investigate.

[HotelUser]

She'll be going to jail for a very long time!

[Hitman]

She'll be going to jail for a very long time!

This is the United Kingdom we are talking about, she will get a crap sentence and then be allowed out quicker either due to a blunder or because of "good behaviour" (aka the prisons are too cramped) - then she will be allowed to stay in the country and will no doubt claim again.

If you think that is a load of ******** you are mistaken; one man (an asylum seeker who had appealed his rejection) was driving illegally without a licence or insurance and struck a man on a moped. This man died and the asylum seeker got 4 years in jail I believe... and he will not be deported.

[Nemo]

I still think they should just remove benefits completely
and tbh making them do work would be good too, and it will be easy to see if someone is using false identities because they couldn't show up for them all therefore they can cut them off and go investigate.

thank god you aint in power.

And you lot seem all patriotic, but you just seem to bad mouth much of what happens in the UK, go and become a politician and lets see what kind if difference you can make and if people agree with you or not.

[Moh]

This is one of the reasons I dislike asylum seekers coming to this country.

If they come over here to work, bring their culture and food then that's ok, they're contributing to the community. But when you get them coming just for the benefits then it's just ridiculous.

Since jobs are very low, I personally think we should stop accepting them until the recession etc.. is over.

[alexxxxx]

i always feel like people don't know the difference between:

Asylum Seeker, Illegal Immigrant and Immigrant and EU-Immigrant