Farah Damji
The net’s not closing for this fugitive:
Conwoman and fraudster Farah Damji, 39, has absconded from Downview prison in Surrey, where she has been serving a three and a half year sentence.
Damji, the former editor of the Another Generation lifestyle magazine, had been allowed out on a temporary licence last Saturday, July 22, to attend a tutorial for an Open University degree. She failed to return to the prison in the evening of the same day, as planned.
Asians in Media magazine revealed that she appeared to be blogging about her new freedom on the blog section of what appears to be Damji’s myspace page.
She told the paper she decided not to go back to the prison after learning that the Prison Service intended to refuse her permission to attend an educational course at St Martin’s College next week. She said she had informed the governor of her decision via email.
Damji was jailed after she stole credit cards from acquaintances to fund shopping sprees. She also pretended to be a Daily Mail journalist to procure expensive rings. After being charged in relation to the rings she posed as a prosecutor and attempted to sabotage her trial by contacting a key prosecution witness. Then she called the Crown Prosecution Service and pretended to be a secretary to then home secretary, David Blunkett, with a message that the case was not in the public interest. She was convicted last October of perverting the course of justice and thefts of £50,000.
Before falling foul of the law, she had set herself up as a successful editor in London and had managed to hide the fact that she had spent six months in jail in New York in 1995, for grand larcency and forgery.
This is Damji’s MySpace. In one of her blog entries she complains about the “Fascist State” of the U.K….
Apparently the Prison Service is trying to close down my blog. So much for the freedoms we take for granted. This country and everything about it makes me sick.
When you break the law and get sentenced to jail some of those freedoms get revoked. If you weren’t a con artist and petty thief this wouldn’t be an issue.
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