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Warwickshire Care Workers with False IDs Sentenced to Jail

11/09/2014

Two care workers employed by a care home in Rugby, Warwickshire has been jailed after investigators found they have falsified their identification documents.

Warwick Crown Court sentenced Joseph Maduka and Justice Osazee to 6 months of imprisonment.

Maduka and Osazee are both from Nigeria. Osazee's family in Nigeria has been embroiled in a clan dispute and he went to the UK to avoid retribution. Osazee used a false French name in his passport to enter the country and secure his job with the care home. He married a UK citizen from Coventry during his stay and will not likely be deported after serving his sentence.

Maduka came to the UK using a fake Dutch ID after getting in touch with Osazee and will be deported after his prison term.

The two Nigerian migrants were recruited by the agency Fosse Healthcare and worked at Drovers House Care Home in Bridget Street, Rugby. The care home was recently opened in October 2013 and mostly cares for dementia sufferers.

Their employer and the care home residents, mostly seniors, held the two in high regard. 

Recorder Mark Wall QC, when reading the sentence to the two, said that while Maduka and Osazee have not committed previous acts that would blemish their good moral character, still the State as well as the employer are "entitled to expect that the documents presented to them are genuine."

The UK has long relied on migrant workers to occupy jobs in its care sector. Oxford-based research institution Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society (COMPAS) estimates that 1/5 of 1.5 million UK care workers are migrants. COMPAS researchers said care employers want to hire migrants because of their good work ethic. Earlier this 2014, Health Minister Norman Lamb told The Telegraph that UK's care industry will likely collapse if not for migrant workers.