Grenfell fraudster jailed for pretending family died in fire

A serial conman who pretended that his family died in the Grenfell Tower fire has been jailed.

Fraudster Anh Nhu Nguyen, fifty three, claimed his partner and son had been killed in the June 14 grief to deliver about £12,500 from the victim reduction fund.

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He became once sentenced for 21 months at Southwark Crown Court docket at present time.

Nguyen became once even photographed beside Prince Charles as the royal met survivors.

He spun a merciless myth to family liaison officers, describing how he lost have of his family in the smoke-clogged stairwell, police mentioned.

Nonetheless whereas a necessary restoration operation became once below methodology on June 15, the fraudster became once in fact 9 miles away at a housing charity, in step with prosecutors.

He posed as a victim of the blaze for nearly two weeks and became once given about £12,500 by charities and Kensington and Chelsea Council.

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Some seventy one folks had been killed in the blaze which swept by the west London block after cladding on the starting up air caught fire.

The fifty three-year-veteran, of Beckenham, south-east London, pleaded responsible to 2 counts of fraud by spurious illustration and one depend of making an untrue assertion for the reason for acquiring a passport.

Sentencing became once firstly adjourned except December by Assume Philip Bartle to permit a pre-sentence fable and a psychiatric fable to be compiled.

Nonetheless, at a hearing at this time sooner than Christmas, a court heard there had been a ‘failure’ by probation companies and products to develop contact with the defendant and provide a fable.

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Assume Bartle additionally mentioned a psychologist had willing a in fact broad 21-web page fable however had mentioned it became once ‘necessary’ to agree with accept entry to to Nguyen’s scientific notes sooner than making any final conclusions.

Nguyen became once born in Vietnam, has been in the UK for the reason that Eighties, is a British citizen and has 17 aliases.

He has 28 old convictions for fifty six offences spanning extra than 30 years, including theft, dishonesty offences, arson and indecent bodily agonize.

Passing sentence, the assume mentioned: ‘The offences to which you are going to need gotten pleaded responsible are ones which you committed luminous elephantine smartly what the outcomes had been.

‘I produce not earn that the acts had been in some methodology an strive to be share of a community and that you had been in some methodology reaching out in reveal to be embraced by that community.

‘I’m definite from all the things I in fact agree with considered… that despite your low IQ you knew elephantine smartly what you had been doing.

‘You knew that you had been taking income of these accurate victims at this unsightly time of this unsightly tragedy.’