A ZIMBABWEAN couple who gave false names to defraud a UK electrical company have been told they could be sent to jail.
Jacqueline Mugomba, 39, told retailers BrightHouse that her name was Letitia Jones while buying electrical goods on hire purchase.
Phillip Mugomba, 35, who lives with her in Wharf Road, Grays, said his name was Phillip Ronald Mupunga.
Both admitted one count of fraud at Basildon Crown Court on August 12 and will be sentenced on Friday.
Jacqueline committed her offence between February and May 2009, and Phillip between November 2008 and March 2009.
The court heard she has previous convictions for fraud. The most recent was in October 2007 after she had used a fake passport to open a bank account at the HSBC branch at Lakeside Shopping Centre.
She was given a suspended prison sentence, which she breached with her offence last year.
At the time she was an asylum seeker and the court ordered the prosecution to notify immigration authorities about her latest conviction.
She was previously jailed for ten months in 2004 for conspiracy to defraud.
Judge John Lodge said he would need to see a report on their backgrounds before he passed sentence, but warned them both that jail was a possibility.
(reporting by Thurrock Gazette)