A Brighton man has been jailed after being caught with a fake Belgian passport.
Nabeel Binlubna, 36, of Western Road, Brighton, was also caught with a fake French ID card and a Halifax bank card under an assumed name at the start of this month.
Binlubna was accused of having the French ID and Halifax card “for use in the course of or in connection with a fraud”.
At Brighton magistrates’ Court he was jailed for 12 weeks – two six-week prison sentences to run consecutively – after he admitted breaching the Fraud Act and the Identity Documents Act.
He was sent to prison because the offences were so serious and because, the presiding magistrate said, in view of the nature of the offences no other sentence was possible.
In a separate case a Brighton teenager was landed with a £300 bill for a public order offence.
Bobbie Wallace, 19, of Bexhill Road, Woodingdean, pleaded not guilty to the charge but was convicted by Brighton magistrates.
She used threatening or abusive words or behaviour or disorderly behaviour likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress in North Street, Brighton, on Monday 21 April.
She was fined £50 and ordered to pay prosecution costs of £225 and a victim surcharge of £20.
