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A WOMAN HAS appeared in court accused of falsely claiming to have lost her home in the Grenfell Tower fire in a series of alleged frauds totalling nearly £400,000 (€450,000).
Salma Said, 48, allegedly lied about being a resident of the high-rise block of flats on the night of the fire that killed 72 people in June 2017.
Another woman, 35-year-old Rawda Said, of Warwick Road, Kensington and Chelsea, west London, appeared alongside her charged with assisting an offender by providing a statement that backed up her story.
The 48-year-old, of Bishop King’s Road, west London, is also accused of making a dishonest claim relating to the Right to Buy housing scheme in Barnet in September 2017.
She attended Westminster Magistrates’ Court today facing six counts of fraud by false representation between 2014 and 2018 totalling £389,500 and indicated not guilty pleas to all charges.
Alongside the two women in the dock were three others said to be linked to parts of the alleged offending.
Nura Abdulkader, 40, is accused of one count of fraud for allegedly lying about living in Grenfell on 14 June 2017 in order to gain “housing and financial support”.
Makrem Harzi, 38, faces two counts of assisting an offender by allegedly providing statements supporting 48-year-old Said “with intent to impede (her) apprehension or prosecution”.
William Inglebright, 62, is accused of one count of fraud for allegedly claiming to meet the relevant criteria for the Help to Buy scheme in Barnet in May 2017 in order to be granted an equity loan.
Prosecutor Bharti Joshi told the court the case was not suitable for summary trial given the level of alleged culpability after each defendant indicated not guilty pleas to all offences.
Chair of the magistrates’ bench Lucinda Lubbock declined jurisdiction and released all five on bail ahead a further hearing at Isleworth Crown Court on 27 March.
There’s a growing instability in the North these days. Strong leadership is needed North and South, to prevent the outbreak of violence, and to maintain the peace.
@Frog Náireach: There is peace and there is no chance of the violent past returning. These types of attacks are being carried out by Loyalists against immigrants or other loyalist gang members. They dont threaten the stability of the North.
@oneill: There’s obviously some chance. Alot of crazy people. and it is violent and therefore threatens the peace
You see the craziness in the way they drive down here alone. And in their laws where guilt is presumed and innocence must be proven. It’s sui generis. A place apart up there beyond the bogs and rushes and abandoned wastes of North Cavan and Fermanagh. Leave them where they are another 300 years might be fit for civilised company then.
@John O’Driscoll: You on the sauce early tonight then? You sound like a teenage girl trying to imbibe the spirit Seamus Heaney in a bid to sound intellectual. The only abandoned waste here is your own grasp of reality. If you’re an example of this “civilised company” that is lacking everywhere North of Cavan ; then god help us. Pompous little man.
More renewable hate initiatives. Never let them in they are different from us. Been too long and would be a disaster. They remember 400 years ago like it was yesterday and every carefully planned insult murder and wrong done since. Done by the “other side” that is. Never their own. Or “mines” as they say in that curious argot.
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