Bogus brides gang face jail

ILFORD

A sham marriage gang are facing jail after they earned more than £500,000 by setting Asian immigrants up with Eastern European brides. The group, led by Sainsbury’s workers Ayaz Khan, 32, and Jurgita Pavlovskyte, 25, arranged at least 13 fake weddings to get round Home Office restrictions on international students. They used photographs of the ‘happy couples’ together with forged job offers to convince officials to grant residency to the grooms from Pakistan, India and Bangladesh. Only two of the…

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