"An Algerian man with no links to Ireland was able to obtain an official Irish passport in a false name by claiming he was the son of an Irish woman murdered in the UK, despite the fact she had no children."
"Dublin Circuit Court was told it was "harder to sign up for a mobile phone contract with Vodafone" than get an Irish passport, after it emerged that Sabouni Abdelhamid was granted the document after he claimed to be the son of Catherine 'Kate' Corridan, who was murdered in London."
An Algerian man with five aliases and no links to Ireland applied online from London and obtained an official Irish passport in a false name. He claimed to be the son of Catherine 'Kate' Corridan, an Irish woman murdered in London, although she had no children. The passport was granted after the false claim. The case reached Dublin Circuit Court, which noted that obtaining the passport appeared easier than signing up for a mobile phone contract with Vodafone. The man named in the proceedings is Sabouni Abdelhamid.
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