TWO men who organised dozens of sham marriages in churches in
Lincolnshire have been given six-year prison sentences.
For at least four years, the pair used a network of contacts to
recruit brides from EU states to marry men who were prepared to pay
to help them stay in the UK illegally.
Jose Tavares De Oliveira, a Portuguese national, and Weal
Lewizy, an Egyptian, would book ceremonies at Grimsby Minster, and
at St Aidan's, Cleethorpes. They would hire wedding dresses, ...
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