Murder Trial Sheds Light on Sham Marriages and Post-Brexit Immigration Dodge

A Dutch national has been convicted of murder in London and two others have been convicted of false imprisonment after a trial that heard the motive was a row over money from a “sham marriage scheme.” But how common are bogus weddings and what safeguards are there? On Tuesday a jury at the Old Bailey in London found Jurick Croes, 38, guilty of murdering Riches Obi, 25. Croes and two other Dutch nationals, Raichell Felomina, 39, and Suvenca Martis, 33, were also convicted of the false imprisonment of his mother, Bernadette Ortet, a case worker with a firm of solicitors who specialised in immigration work....