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A Nigerian with Irish citizenship has jeopardised a promising accountancy career by bringing a fake passport into Luton Airport.
A Nigerian with Irish citizenship has jeopardised a promising accountancy career by bringing a fake passport into Luton Airport.
Tomisin Gbadamosi, 29, was jailed for ten months on Friday. The court heard he had been due to sit his final accountancy exams in June.
Bill McGivern, prosecuting, said Gbadamosi was searched after arriving on a Ryanair flight from Cork.
In his backpack was a chartered accountancy year book, and inside was a passport and national insurance card in the name of Michael Desmond.
The passport was a fake and he was questioned.
He said a friend in Ireland had asked him to bring the passport with him to hand over to another man at Luton.
He claimed not to be aware it was a fake.
But Heather Shimman, defending, said he now accepted that he knew it was not legitimate.
She said: "His journey was to discuss the possibility of further studies, and he carried the passport as a favour for a friend.
"It was a moment of stupidity and he has since been told that custody is almost inevitable.
"He has described his remand in prison over the last 33 days as hell.
"Before this he was on the cusp of becoming an accountant and had established a stable and potentially prosperous life in Ireland with his wife."
Gbadamosi, from Galway, pleaded guilty to having a false instrument with intent.
Judge John Bevan QC told him: "The courts take a serious view of identity fraud for reasons which are too obvious to mention."