A hard-working illegal overstayer, who tried to use a forged passport to secure a job at Europe's biggest shopping mall in the Olympic Park, has been jailed and now faces deportation.
African Perrigrinus Dzeha, 41, a deacon at his Peckham church, arrived in the U.K. as a teenager twenty-five years ago and never returned home.
He pleaded guilty at Inner London Crown Court to possessing the passport with intent to establish registrable facts about himself and was sentenced to five months imprisonment.
The first-time offender, who has never claimed benefits, was caught after applying for a job at Westfield Shopping Centre, Olympic Park, Stratford, East London (pictured).
The carpenter has earned a living in his chosen trade or labouring work and is also an active volunteer in Southwark youth projects.
"You have to receive a custodial sentence," Judge Peter Grobel told Dzeha.
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