A Reverend Conducts Fake Marriages

Reverend Nathan Ntege

Reverend Nathan Ntege of St Jude’s Church(Diocese of Southwark) was arrested in June last year following an investigation into sham marriages by the UK Border Agency.

The 53-year-old is accused of conducting a string of fake marriages at the St Jude’s with St Aidan Church in Thornton Heath, south London.

Ntege has been charged with 14 immigration offences, including one offence of conspiracy to facilitate unlawful immigration and 13 charges of assisting illegal entry in relation to 492 marriages held at his church.

It is believed the border agency’s Criminal and Financial Investigation Unit started investigating after a tip off about the vast number of marriages conducted at the church.

Ntege, who is originally from Uganda but lives in Croydon, appeared at Croydon Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday along with his 79-year-old verger, Brian Miller, of Selsdon, south London, who faces the same charges.

Ntege was bailed on condition that he does not attend St Jude’s, officiate at a religious building or service and or apply for travel documents.

He was suspended by the Diocese of Southwark when he was arrested last year, pending the outcome of the case.

This is how far people go…