Bank staff 'alerted by bogus passport'

The police were called after Rashid Javid was persuaded to wait in an office and the hunch proved correct, Chris Aspinall prosecuting told Leeds Crown Court.

Javid then admitted he had bought the passport for 100 from a friend who ran a barber's shop.

It then emerged he had entered the UK in 2004 with a six month visa using his genuine Pakistani passport but became an overstayer.

Although he was given a suspended jail sentence for robbery in 2007 he had never been deported and the offences in 2008 put him in breach of that suspended sentence.

Richard Wright for Javid told the court his client realised the seriousness of his position and the impact on his family if he was jailed. Having married in an Islamic ceremony, he and his wife had three children together and she was pregnant again.

The robbery in 2007 had involved a woman he knew, he said. Javid had taken her bag in an effort to get back his phone from it which explained the sentence unusually being suspended.

The 24-year-old, of Broadacre Road, Ossett, admitted two offences of possessing a false identity document and was jailed for 15 months with nine months consecutive for breaching the suspended sentence.

Sentencing him, Judge Paul Hoffman said there were a lot of questions hanging over his life in the UK.

"The report I have read on you is not at all flattering," he told him. "There is far too much of this sort of thing going on, people buying bogus passports and using them for one purpose or another."

Even if one did not take a sinister view of his trying to open a bank account with the passport in this case, the offence was too serious to overlook.

He said he would expect automatic deportation to follow the sentence this time.