Judge wants to know true identity of woman caught with cloned credit card
Published Date:
06 October 2008
By Staff Copy
A woman who was caught with a cloned credit card at a Northampton supermarket will be sentenced once her real identity can be established.
Qin Zhou, 34, was arrested after she provided a forged Chinese passport to staff at Tesco in Weston Favell after her cloned credit card was spotted.
Northampton Crown Court heard she was trying to buy £900 of electrical goods on Monday, September 15, when staff became suspicious.
When she produced a forged passport, the police were called. When she was arrested, they found she had another cloned credit card on her.
Zhou, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to fraud, possessing a forged passport and possessing articles for the use in fraud.
But Judge Charles Wide said he was unwilling to pass sentence until he could be sure of her true identity.
He said: "I really do expect the police to make further inquiries and to do nothing more is rather extraordinary. I also want inquiries to be made into who she is."
Zhou, who was smuggled into the UK in 2000, was further remanded in custody. She will be sentenced later this month and faces deportation back to China.
The full article contains 207 words and appears in Northampton Chron & Echo newspaper.
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Last Updated:
06 October 2008 9:55 AM
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Source:
Northampton Chron & Echo
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Location:
Northampton
