2026-02-17
'Extraordinarily easy': man who falsely claimed to be son of murdered Irish woman jailed for passport fraud
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Judge Orla Crowe said "great sophistication" was required by Abdelhamid to carry out the offences before the court. "It required a huge amount of deliberation and planning," she said, noting that Abdelhamid used the name of a person who actually existed in France. "He impersonated a real person and used the identity of a deceased person," Judge Crowe noted, before she said that a headline sentence of six years was warranted. Judge Crowe took mitigating factors into account including Abdelhamid's ultimate pleas of guilty and the fact that he is using his time in custody well, before she imposed a three-year sentence backdated to when Abdelhamid was first remanded in custody in September 2025.; Judge Crowe took mitigating factors into account including Abdelhamid's ultimate pleas of guilty and the fact that he is using his time in custody well, before she imposed a three-year sentence backdated to when Abdelhamid was first remanded in custody in September 2025.