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DJ who was persecuted in home country fled to Britain and used fake identity to work as Covid nurse
Eunice Owusu said that other gay individuals in Ghana were scorched alive or battered to the point of death
Eunice Owusu as she left Teesside Crown
Court
A radio moderator who dreaded she would be imprisoned or killed as a result of her sexuality, escaped her local Ghana and utilized her cousin's
personality to get work in the UK, a court has heard.
Eunice Owusu, 34, says she was assaulted and dependent upon sexual maltreatment by her significant other in Ghana, later
he guardians coordinated an organized marriage. She says she lost her employment subsequent to being "exposed" in 2021, after years attempting to stay quiet about her sexuality.
Owusu, who was known as "DJ Ice" escaped to the UK, at first remaining with her sister by marriage - prior to moving to Structure
. Owusu says she dropped out with her sister by marriage over her sexuality and afterward organized to meet her cousin.
Teesside Crown Court has heard she then, at that point, copied her cousin's identification and utilized that personality to go after positions.
Owusu acquired work in nursing homes in 2020. On Wednesday, John Nixon, shielding, told the
Court that his client has cared for elderly individuals through the Coronavirus pandemic,
"at the point when other staff would have rather not worked. She was on the cutting edge with old Coronavirus patients.
"She worked extended periods of time in troublesome conditions, really focusing on individuals who were old and languishing. She lets me know she was an attendant for quite some time in Ghana.
"She was excused not on account of any ineptitude, yet when her actual personality became exposed.
Charges were paid on every last bit of her income. There were no weaknesses in her
Work."
Mr Nixon proceeded to say that homosexuality is unlawful in Ghana, and that individuals can be imprisoned by the courts there
. He said reports of gay individuals are being singed alive or battered to the point of death.
Owusu, of Parkfield Way, in Stockton, confessed to five counts of extortion, more than a 18-month time span in 2021-2022
. The court heard that at one point she held down four separate seasonal positions in the consideration area.
Emma Atkinson, arraigning, let the court know that Owusu's migration status has been
"put aside, forthcoming the result of the present sentence. On the off chance that she is condemned to a year or more in jail,
she faces removal.
"I couldn't say whether she could guarantee refuge" Ms Atkinson added.
Mr Nixon said that his client is a woman who had no qualification to work and gambled being ousted,
"in my accommodation, it's reasonable with respect to why she utilized her cousin's identification to work."
Judge Howard Crowson told Owusu, "The installments made to you,
it very well may be contended, caused no monetary misfortune. You worked in care homes during Coronavirus, during troublesome times.
"The consideration suppliers would have needed to have paid another person to accomplish the work.
You have solid elements in your own moderation. I'm convinced to take a course which is somewhat not quite the same as the rules.
"Normally the damage of misrepresentation is a legitimate misfortune to the person in question."
Owusu was allowed a year local area request. She should go to 30 restoration days and complete 120-hours of neglected work.
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