A pregnant Nigerian woman’s plan to use the
NHS as an ‘International Health Service’ to
deliver her baby and then have the child
declared a British citizen was foiled when she
was exposed as a fraud, a court heard.
Oluwaseun Adenubi, 30, used the passport of
her friend, 32-year-old Rita Ogunkunle, to
obtain free care. After the delivery the
friend and her boyfriend Michael Adebambo,
46, registered the baby as theirs.
However, staff at Farnborough’s Princess
Royal University Hospital realised the medical
records of the genuine Ogunkunle, who had
received acne treatment there, conflicted with
the pregnant patient claiming to be her.
“The probation service think this is a plot to
use the ‘International Health Service’ and
then take further advantage — the residency
that comes with that and everything else,”
said Croydon crown court Judge John Tanzer.
Mother: Oluwaseun Adenubi claimed to have
found the passport on a bench
Adenubi, who was granted a family visit visa
which allows her to stay in the UK for up to six
months, pleaded guilty to fraud against the
hospital between April and July last year.
Ogunkunle and Adebambo, both of Orpington,
pleaded guilty to wilfully giving false
information about the registration of a birth
by claiming to be the parents of Moses
Adenubi, at Bromley Civic Centre.
The couple have now fallen out with Adenubi,
who claims she found Ogunkunle’s passport on a
bench. Ogunkunle said it was snatched from
her home and used behind her back.
“The probation service are there to report
what they have been told and they say they
don’t believe a word of it and neither do I,”
added the judge.
Prosecutor Alexandra Bushell told the court:
“Maybe there was a motivation to secure the
nationality of the child as a British citizen and
free NHS treatment. After the baby was born
in June staff realised something was not right
because Ogunkunle has severe scarring, which
the baby’s mother did not have, and there
were two different blood types for the same
patient.”
Ogunkunle was arrested in August and claimed
Adenubi took her passport after moving into
her spare room.
“She admitted falsely registering the birth of
the baby and said she had been introduced to
Adenubi by a friend of her mother’s and took
pity on her because she was pregnant and had
no friends,” added the prosecutor.
“She told
police she was angry at Adenubi using her
identity and tried to beat her to it by
registering the child.”
Miss Bushell went on: “[Adebambo] said his
girlfriend asked him to go to the register
office to register a birth and said she told
him she did not want another woman to use her
identity.
“He said he did it out of love for his girlfriend
and was very remorseful.”
“[Adenubi] claimed she was fleeing a violent
partner in Nigeria and claimed to have no
family here and no contact with her family in
Nigeria.
“She said she arrived with nowhere to go and
met a Nigerian man at the airport and others
via a church, but had no details of those she
stayed with.
“She claimed to have found Ogunkunle’s
passport on a bench and only used it to get
free medical services.” All three were bailed
until a date to be fixed.-culled from
standard.co.uk
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