Foreigner Watch 6

A Crystal Palace man who was part of a three-man network, smuggling illegal immigrants into London and then claiming they were students to help them stay, was sentenced to three years in jail.

Zimbabwean Harry Wilson, 46, of Thicket Road, brought the immigrants into the UK on false documents and then duped the Home Office into granting them visas to stay.





Three Romanians who conned eBay customers out of thousands of pounds have been sentenced to a total of eight years' in prison.

The gang tricked customers into paying for £300,000 worth of non-existent goods which never arrived.

The ring leader, Nicolae Cretanu, 30, of Forest Gate, London, was given a three and a half year prison sentence. His wife Adriana, 23, and George Titar, 26, of Stratford in east London, both got two and a half years.




An asylum seeker who strangled his partner and dumped her body in the River Bure at Yarmouth must serve at least 16 years behind bars, a judge has ruled.

Antonio Lopes, of Kent Square, Yarmouth, was convicted at Norwich Crown Court in October 2003 of killing Domingas Olivais, the mother of his seven-year-old daughter Caia, and jailed for life.