Niall Donald

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An Algerian man with no links to Ireland was able to obtain an official Irish passport in a false name by claiming he was the son of an Irish woman murdered in the UK.

Dublin Circuit Court was told it was harder to sign up for a mobile phone contract with Vodafone than get an Irish passport after it emerged that Sabuni Abd al-Hamid was granted the document after he claimed to be the son of Catherine Kate Carradine who was murdered in London.

Today, I'm speaking to Crime World's Alan Cherry about how Abdelhamid was jailed after he was caught out in a lie.

I'm Niall Donald and this is Crime World, a podcast from crimeworld.com.

So it's a long history of people using dead people to get fake passports.

I mean, I think it was, was it highlighted in the Frederick Forsyth novel, I think, how you did it and, you know, it sort of set off this train.

But this is a very unusual case of an Algerian man who seems to have, you claimed he was the son of an Irish woman who was murdered in the U.K.,

And Maeve even just sort of picked up her name off watching a TV show.

Is that what we suspect?

But I suppose it shows as well, this case, the difficulty and how much harder it is to get away with it these days.

So sheer case that appeared in this program was The Real Manhunter, which I think presumably is a play on the Netflix show, which is really

Yeah.

So he's convicted of life at this point.

The programme goes back on, presumably...

Mr. Abdul Hamid sees this and he hears, maybe he hears her age or date of birth and he decides, well, she's dead.

So I'm going to claim to be her natural born son.

And therefore I automatically, you know, get an Irish passport effectively.

I mean, obviously, like, you know, she's not there to contradict it is presumably the first bit of it.

Does he not have to provide a birth cert?