We've had the illegal immigrant who was employed as a security guard at the Home Office, not to mention numerous illegal immigrants who were working there as cleaners, but this story really does take the proverbial biscuit. In fact, I think it takes the whole pack:
An asylum seeker with a false passport worked for almost a year processing immigration appeals, it emerged yesterday.
Eugene Tawanda Madzima landed the job at the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal Service after supposedly undergoing background checks.
Officials were tricked by a faked letter from the Home Office saying the 24-year old had permission to stay in the UK.
Madzima was so well regarded at work he even gave a staff training presentation at the AITS centre in Leicester.
He was caught only when he tried to use the forged passport to open an HSBC bank account.
As Madzima was jailed for 12 months at Leicester Crown Court for holding forged documents, Judge Simon Hammond said the situation was "staggering" and "beggars belief".
He added: "Why was he able to get a fulltime job with the Appeals and Immigration Tribunal Service, of all people, who are meant to be dealing with people seeking asylum?
"No proper checks were made and yet he must have been on their records. "
Words really do fail me. Is there anyone at the Home Office who isn't an utter buffoon (apart from the apparently rather cunning asylum seekers and illegal immigrants, that is)?
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