A mother-of-three from Jamaica with five years of service to the NHS lost her nursing qualifications and has spent more than £40,000 in visa fees to remain in the UK after she was prosecuted for buying what she thought was a dead person’s passport and living a second life as someone else 23 years ago.
After moving to the UK in 2000 with her two eldest children, Grace Walford, a 55-year-old care worker from Leicester who worked on the front line during the Covid pandemic, said she made a mistake which would ultimately cost her career, her home and almost see her deported.
She agreed to buy a British passport from a friend of a friend – who told her that it had belonged to a deceased person – so she could pass it off as her own to stay in the UK as a citizen.
It actually belonged to a Manchester woman, Lucy Downer. Try MEN Premium now with our amazing New Year offer... just click here to give it a go Grace became known as Lucy Downer, so she had to “switch personalities”.