Illegal housekeeper jailed

A housekeeper that was previously employed by the former attorney general was jailed for eight months yesterday for fraud and possessing a false identity stamp.

The housekeeper, Lolahi Tapui was sentenced yesterday at the Old Bailey after it arose that she had been staying in the country illegally. Miss Tapui, 27 had overstayed her student overstayed her student visa by over four years.

The former attorney general, Baroness Scotland was duped when the housekeeper produced a fake visa stamp in order to obtain the £6.00 an hour job.

Miss Tapui from Togo, lived in Chiswick, West London and was sentenced by the Southwark Crown Court last month.

She admitted possessing a passport with a counterfeit visa stamp between 7 June 2006 and 19 September 2009. Further to this, Tapui admitted that she knew that she had to leave the UK in Febuary 2005, but that she told a series of 'barefaced lies' in order to get into the employ of Baroness Scotland.

Tapui sold her story to The Mail on Sunday for £95,000 while Baroness Scotland was fined £5,000 for failing to take copies of the documents.

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