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An Iranian national whose application for asylum had been refused had been on the run in Hull for four years and was found to be using fake documents to work at a factory.
Alan Qadarea, 25, had used the forged documents to secure a job at the recycling plant in the East Riding.
He forged a permanent resident’s permit using a false name on the document, to make it look that he was legally entitled to live in the UK and then used the same to secure the job at Transwaste Recyling & Aggregates Ltd, Melton.
The documents showed his name as Alan Ahmed and depicting his picture.
Prosecutor Jharna Jobes said that the permit was in the name of Mr Ahmed and had a picture of Qadarea and indicated he was allowed to stay in this country indefinitely.
He being a failed asylum seeker and had no permission to stay in this country and once completing his sentence he would be deported she said.
He earned about £11,500 but claims he needed that money to survive. Qadarea's asylum application was refused in 2008.
Judge Jeremy Richardson QC said this was one of those sad cases where someone having escaped the Iran regime had applied for political asylum and after failing had exhausted all appeal roads.
Qadarea pleaded guilty at Hull Crown Court to fraud by false representation, possessing identity documents with intent and possessing an article for the use in fraud.
His criminal law solicitor said that his client feared for his safety if he was sent back to his home country. He had been in the UK since 2008 and the authorities have made no attempt to remove him.
The criminal law solicitor further pleaded that his client was not working in the black market or had been involved in any illegal activities neither he sought any benefits to survive rather he paid taxes on his earnings into the public purse in a job, which was very low-skilled area of recycling.
The job was probably one which the local population didn't really want to do.
Qadarea, of west Hull, has been given a three-month prison sentence, suspended for 12 months, and was ordered to carry out 100 hours of unpaid work.
Judge Richardson told him that he was not sympathetic to his situation he told Qadarea that he came from Iran managing somehow like many other fellow countrymen and applied for asylum but was refused and that he was to be punished for criminal offence which could not be ignored.
He added that there were very limited benefits to which he was entitled to and that his difficulties were not unfounded but he was to be blamed for the situation he found himself in which still did not entitled him to commit crimes.