A £1million benefit fraud who claimed she acted under a voodoo curse – and produced her daughter's severed fingers in court as evidence – was jailed for five years yesterday.
A judge told Remi Fakorede, 46, that her testimony had been 'utterly unbelievable'.
Mother-of-six Fakorede had invented at least five phantom families, some with disabled children, to claim tax credits.
During her three-week trial she claimed her bank accounts had been taken over by a 'voodoo man', whose curse had already killed her mother.
Asked why she did not contact police, she told jurors that when her daughter was a baby, she suffered kidney failure and her fingers dropped off.
She said the voodoo man told her she would suffer the same fate if she exposed the plot.
It was at that point that she reached into her pocket and brought out a piece of tissue containing three little fingers.
DNA tests confirmed that they belonged to her daughter, who is understood to have suffered from gangrene after her kidney failure.
One juror was left in tears by the macabre stunt.
Yesterday, Judge Jacqueline Beech told Fakorede: 'I find you to be a thoroughly dishonest woman. Your conduct in court was a barefaced attempt to manipulate the jury.'
Snaresbrook Crown Court in East London had heard that £500,000 passed through Fakorede's bank accounts during the five-year scam, with a wider crime 'syndicate' linked to Nigeria pocketing £936,933.
Fakorede, who holds British and Nigerian passports, was already receiving an annual income of up to £40,000 from property in Nigeria.
She also ran a hairdressing salon and owned two East London properties worth hundreds of thousands.
But she told housing benefit authorities she was penniless and out of work.
She submitted 39 claims for tax credits, largely for children she had invented, and used a string of stolen National Insurance numbers.
The court heard the handwriting on most of the the false claim forms could be linked to Fakorede, of Hackney, East London, and the cash was paid into an account in her maiden name.
In the only case where she used her own name, she lied about her work and claimed for a child she did not have.
She said she was a single mother, but investigators discovered her husband was still with her, although he has since left.
Judge Beech called the scam, which ran from August 2002 to June last year, 'a wholesale assault on the benefit system'.
She condemned the ease with which Fakorede had been able to carry out the fraud and called for a review of the system which allows benefits to be paid into any bank account.
Fakorede had denied committing fraud, but showed no reaction to the verdict until discussions began about confiscating her assets, when she sank her head into her hands.
Her daughter, Denise Shofolawe- Coker, 21, was jailed for a year for laundering £70,000. continues here
A judge told Remi Fakorede, 46, that her testimony had been 'utterly unbelievable'.
Mother-of-six Fakorede had invented at least five phantom families, some with disabled children, to claim tax credits.
During her three-week trial she claimed her bank accounts had been taken over by a 'voodoo man', whose curse had already killed her mother.
Asked why she did not contact police, she told jurors that when her daughter was a baby, she suffered kidney failure and her fingers dropped off.
She said the voodoo man told her she would suffer the same fate if she exposed the plot.
It was at that point that she reached into her pocket and brought out a piece of tissue containing three little fingers.
DNA tests confirmed that they belonged to her daughter, who is understood to have suffered from gangrene after her kidney failure.
One juror was left in tears by the macabre stunt.
Yesterday, Judge Jacqueline Beech told Fakorede: 'I find you to be a thoroughly dishonest woman. Your conduct in court was a barefaced attempt to manipulate the jury.'
Snaresbrook Crown Court in East London had heard that £500,000 passed through Fakorede's bank accounts during the five-year scam, with a wider crime 'syndicate' linked to Nigeria pocketing £936,933.
Fakorede, who holds British and Nigerian passports, was already receiving an annual income of up to £40,000 from property in Nigeria.
She also ran a hairdressing salon and owned two East London properties worth hundreds of thousands.
But she told housing benefit authorities she was penniless and out of work.
She submitted 39 claims for tax credits, largely for children she had invented, and used a string of stolen National Insurance numbers.
The court heard the handwriting on most of the the false claim forms could be linked to Fakorede, of Hackney, East London, and the cash was paid into an account in her maiden name.
In the only case where she used her own name, she lied about her work and claimed for a child she did not have.
She said she was a single mother, but investigators discovered her husband was still with her, although he has since left.
Judge Beech called the scam, which ran from August 2002 to June last year, 'a wholesale assault on the benefit system'.
She condemned the ease with which Fakorede had been able to carry out the fraud and called for a review of the system which allows benefits to be paid into any bank account.
Fakorede had denied committing fraud, but showed no reaction to the verdict until discussions began about confiscating her assets, when she sank her head into her hands.
Her daughter, Denise Shofolawe- Coker, 21, was jailed for a year for laundering £70,000. continues here
Sometimes I think we must be mad, quite, quite mad, for permitting them to come, for permitting them to assail us so, there is no circumstance to my mind that, would allow permanent residence for non-Europeans, nor even for predatory migrants from European countries. A people have an absolute right to homogeneity, to there people specific culture and any government, institution or individual that works counter to this principle commits the highest treason. Remi Fakorede, robbed us, calculatedly helped herself, yet all of these new-comers rob us, some legally and some as in the case of Remi Fakorede illegally.
The difference is the level of robbery, as far as the government is concerned, one can, drag ones family through country after country, land here by whatever means and live off us and that is okay, protected by government and all the apparatus of the state, yet milk more and one is a criminal, I ask what is the difference. What is the difference to the old, dying in winter afraid to turn up the heat, what is the difference for the legions left languishing on the dole, what is the difference for the homeless, what is the difference for all of us and our ancestors before us, who built this Europe.
Can you not hear us or do you still refuse to listen, they do not belong here and we do not deserved to be treated in this way, what gives so many the right to rob us and yet it is a crime to cry out, a crime to state our grievance in, this the purported home of the free. The biggest thief of course is government, not only do they rob us but they invent legislation to jail us should we speak out, freedom is a lie, you must live to their laws or suffer a dire fate. So creatures such as Remi Fakorede, will always have free reign to rob our countries, to live off the toil of the workers, parasites amongst us, sucking us dry, protected by a treacherous government. 14
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