The Nigerian mother who used a British woman's identity to have a baby at our expense

A Nigerian mother found guilty of using a British woman’s identity to give birth on the NHS is living on state handouts in London.

Oluwaseun Adenubi, 30, used the passport of Rita Ogunkunle, to obtain free medical care during the delivery of her son Moses.

She then allowed Ogunkunle, 32, and partner Michael Adebambo, 46, to register as Moses’s parents to get him free NHS care and a UK passport, a court heard in January.

Judge John Tanzer described the case as ‘a Nigerian plot to use the “International Health Service” and then take further advantage’.

Adenubi came to London when pregnant in 2014 on a family visit visa, which allowed her to stay for up to six months.

But the Mail can reveal that despite overstaying her visa and being handed an eight-month suspended prison sentence for fraud, Adenubi is still in the UK. She has not repaid a penny of the £3,500 it cost to deliver her baby, and she continues to receive free NHS care for herself and her son, now one.

The mother of one lives in a two-bedroom semi-detached house – paid for by the taxpayer – in an east London suburb, receiving around £9,000 a year in state handouts.

Suspicions were raised in spring last year when Adenubi registered at Farnborough’s Princess Royal University Hospital.

Staff noticed that the new patient, with documents naming her as Rita Ogunkunle, did not tally with NHS records for the woman of that name. They also realised her blood type did not match what they had on record, so asked her to be re-tested.

But the real Ogunkunle allegedly went in Adenubi’s place, so the new blood test matched the original record. When Adenubi gave birth, she needed a Caesarean section, which involved a blood transfusion. Luckily, her blood type was tested before the procedure and she was given the correct type – but this led to more confusion.