By Press Association 2021
A plane takes off past the control tower at Heathrow Airport (Steve Parsons/PA)
A man who used a fake fit-to-fly Covid-19 certificate to try and board a plane to Egypt has avoided being jailed.
Emmanuel Nere Mehari, 27, was stopped at Heathrow Airport’s Terminal 2 on April 12 and found with the forged document.
Mehari pleaded guilty to the charge of possessing or controlling an article for use in fraud at a hearing at Uxbridge Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday.
He was sentenced to a 12-month community order and given 180 hours of unpaid work, as well as a fine of £180.
By Press Association 2021
A plane takes off past the control tower at Heathrow Airport (Steve Parsons/PA)
A man who used a fake fit-to-fly Covid-19 certificate to try and board a plane to Egypt has avoided being jailed.
Emmanuel Nere Mehari, 27, was stopped at Heathrow Airport’s Terminal 2 on April 12 and found with the forged document.
Mehari pleaded guilty to the charge of possessing or controlling an article for use in fraud at a hearing at Uxbridge Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday.
He was sentenced to a 12-month community order and given 180 hours of unpaid work, as well as a fine of £180.
Document discovered when Emmanuel Nere Mehari was stopped at Terminal 2
Uxbridge Magistrates Court was told Mehari was trying to visit unwell relative
He claimed to not know a certificate or negative coronavirus test was required
Authorities let him board plane but then received a call telling them it was a fake
Mehari, of Dimsdale Drive, north west London, spoke only to enter his plea today
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