Pamela Izbec...Izabec....Iz....whatev, has new faked documents

Pamela Izevbekhai, the Nigerian woman who claims that she fled to Ireland to save her two daughters from female genital mutilation, has used another set of counterfeit documents in her latest Supreme Court appeal against deportation, it is claimed.

A garda investigation to establish the authenticity of the new documents that Izevbekhai presented to the court last November has concluded they are fake.

Lawyers for the state are expected to ask the Supreme Court to dismiss Izevbekhai’s case on the grounds that it was brought on the basis of fraudulent documents, not once but twice. She had claimed that Elizabeth, her first-born child, had died in 1994 because of blood loss following female circumcision.

Last year Izevbekhai was forced to admit that other documents she had used in a succession of judicial reviews and legal challenges were counterfeit, but claimed that she was unaware of this.

Izevbekhai presented copies of the new documents to the Supreme Court after the state applied to have her entire appeal against deportation dismissed as an abuse of process.

In opposing the application, Izevbekhai told the court that she had obtained the new documents from Olugbenga West, her brother, which proved Elizabeth had existed.

Among the documents she produced was a death certificate allegedly signed by Dr E Oni, which purported to confirm that he had examined baby Elizabeth after she died of pulmonary failure in July 1994.

Izevbekhai also produced correspondence from the Nigerian National Population Commission, which registers births and deaths in the west African country, which “confirmed” the dates of Elizabeth’s birth and death.

Gardai travelled to Nigeria in December to authenticate the new documents, but an investigation established that all but one of the seven documents were counterfeit.

The garda team tracked down local government officials, medical staff and doctors whose “signatures” appeared on the papers.

The death certificate signed by Oni, which had stated that the primary cause of the child’s death was “circumsition” (sic), was confirmed to be a counterfeit.

The Sunday Times was unable to contact Izevbekhai for comment last week.

Izevbekhai’s fight to remain in Ireland with her two young daughters has generated significant publicity and support from politicians, celebrities and civil rights organisations including Fine Gael, Amnesty International and the Irish Refugee Council.

The Nigerian woman claims that she fled Lagos after her husband’s family attempted to perform genital mutilation on her two daughters.

She says that she paid criminals to smuggle her to Ireland via Holland, but gardai suspect that she travelled to Britain on a holiday visa before arriving in Ireland to claim political asylum.