Duo pretended to be Grenfell victims

london - Two illegal immigrants have admitted before the London court that they have been reimbursed over 140,000 euros in expenses by pretending to be victims of the disastrous fire in the London Grenfell Tower. The two, both 51, lived for about three-quarters of a year at the community's expense in a hotel in the Kensington district, the BBC reported.

It concerns two Jamaicans who have been illegally in Great Britain for sixteen years. They claimed that they lived in a ruined flat on the nineteenth floor. Besides the hotel rooms, they also received a credit card from the local government, which they spent thousands of euros on. Apparently someone discovered that they had given up a wrong floor and the deception was revealed. The two will receive their sentences on 13 June.

Because of the fire in the tower block, 71 people were killed in June last year.

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