Farah Damji
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Farah Damji is an author, former editor
and publisher. Prior to coming into the media spotlight in 2005, for criminal acts, she wrote for mainstream and ethnic media including The Observer and The New Statesman and had a regular column in The Birmingham Post. She is the daughter of property tycoon Amir Damji, who lives in South Africa and in London; she has two children.
Damji ran an art gallery in Manhattan and East Hampton from 1992 - 1995 which showed the early works of Jeremy Deller and famed photo-collagist, Peter Beard. In October 1995 she was sentenced to six months in Rikers Island
prison for five counts of Grand Larceny, possession of a forged instrument and altering official records. She was also given four years' probation and ordered to pay back $72,000 to her major victims.
Damji returned from the United States
to the United Kingdom
and became the publisher and editor of the lifestyle magazine Another Generation before it folded.
On 13 October 2005 Damji was jailed in the UK for three and a half years after pleading guilty to thefts totalling £50,000 and two counts of perverting the course of justice.
She was released from Downview Prison
in Surrey
on July 22, 2006 to attend a meeting with her Open University
tutor, but did not return as required that same day. She was re-arrested by police five days later, on July 27. Damji was again arrested in October 2008 on further fraud charges. She pleaded guilty to £17,000 of benefits fraud in July 2009 at Blackfriars Crown Court.
Damji has wriiten an autobiography, published under the title Try Me, ISBN 978-1907188046, in July 2009.
Damji was convicted of fraud on 29 January 2010 and sentenced to a further 15 months imprisonment.
Editing
Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, visual, audible, and film media used to convey information through the processes of correction, condensation, organization, and other modifications performed with an intention of producing a correct, consistent, accurate, and complete...
and publisher. Prior to coming into the media spotlight in 2005, for criminal acts, she wrote for mainstream and ethnic media including The Observer and The New Statesman and had a regular column in The Birmingham Post. She is the daughter of property tycoon Amir Damji, who lives in South Africa and in London; she has two children.
Damji ran an art gallery in Manhattan and East Hampton from 1992 - 1995 which showed the early works of Jeremy Deller and famed photo-collagist, Peter Beard. In October 1995 she was sentenced to six months in Rikers Island
Rikers Island
Rikers Island is New York City's main jail complex, as well as the name of the island on which it sits, in the East River between Queens and the mainland Bronx, adjacent to the runways of LaGuardia Airport. The island itself is part of the borough of the Bronx, though it is included as part of...
prison for five counts of Grand Larceny, possession of a forged instrument and altering official records. She was also given four years' probation and ordered to pay back $72,000 to her major victims.
Damji returned from the United States
United States
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to the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
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and became the publisher and editor of the lifestyle magazine Another Generation before it folded.
On 13 October 2005 Damji was jailed in the UK for three and a half years after pleading guilty to thefts totalling £50,000 and two counts of perverting the course of justice.
She was released from Downview Prison
Downview (HM Prison)
HM Prison Downview is a women's closed category prison. Downview is located on the outskirts of Banstead in Surrey, England , and is immediately adjacent to the southern boundary of Belmont in Greater London...
in Surrey
Surrey
Surrey is a county in the South East of England and is one of the Home Counties. The county borders Greater London, Kent, East Sussex, West Sussex, Hampshire and Berkshire. The historic county town is Guildford. Surrey County Council sits at Kingston upon Thames, although this has been part of...
on July 22, 2006 to attend a meeting with her Open University
Open University
The Open University is a distance learning and research university founded by Royal Charter in the United Kingdom...
tutor, but did not return as required that same day. She was re-arrested by police five days later, on July 27. Damji was again arrested in October 2008 on further fraud charges. She pleaded guilty to £17,000 of benefits fraud in July 2009 at Blackfriars Crown Court.
Damji has wriiten an autobiography, published under the title Try Me, ISBN 978-1907188046, in July 2009.
Damji was convicted of fraud on 29 January 2010 and sentenced to a further 15 months imprisonment.