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Damilola Opemuyi Used Stolen Doctor ID To Secure A Job Finally Arrested by candycrushsoda: 4:06pm On Jul 25, 2015
A music graduate with absolutely no medical
background was given work as a doctor in a
prison and a GP’s surgery after stealing the
identity of a fully-qualified doctor who had
the same first name.

The 39-year-old tricked employment agencies
into believing she was Oluwadamilola Adeyo – a
General Medical Council (GMC) registered GP –
by providing false documents stating she was
fully qualified, before supplying Mrs Adeyo’s
registration number.

She also used a fake driving licence, marriage
certificate and passport as she found work
treating patients in five separate locations.
Applying for a position at a surgery in
Southend, she told the practice manager that
both of her parents were doctors. When asked
where she saw herself in five years time, she
replied by saying she may retrain as a brain
surgeon. She was not offered a job.

In January, Middlesex based agency Meddoc
Locums were duped by her bogus documents,
taking her word that she was a doctor and
hiring her for jobs around Britain.
She was given a position working at Elmley
Prison in Kent, where she’d negotiated a fee of
£500-a-day. She’d previously asked elsewhere
for £2,000-an-hour.

Working across both HMP Elmley and HMP
Swaleside – where GP services are provided by
Minster Medical Group – Opemuyi treated
dozens of inmates, despite having no clue about
the medical profession.

Before time, however, both prisons received
complaints about her work. When she bypassed
prison protocols by increasing an inmate’s
opiate-based drug, her contract was
terminated.

However, days later she turned up at Elmley’s
healthcare wing once again. Prison officers told
her to leave immediately.

Despite this, bosses at Meddoc Locums chose to
give her another chance, and soon she was
offered a day’s work at a GP’s surgery in Essex.
In that single shift she saw 21 patients, even
issuing a death certificate at a care home.
She then worked at a health centre in
Liverpool, where she dealt with another 25
patients. At a second surgery in the city she
saw a further 25, two of them on home visits.
However, after more complaints about
Opemuyi’s work, Meddoc opted to cut ties and
offered her no more work.

The ‘delusional’ fraudster – whose father is a
gynaecologist and mother a paediatrician – was
eventually caught out when she presented two
forged prescriptions at Boots chemist in
Maidstone.

When arrested, she declared: ‘I am a doctor
and I wrote them myself.’
Opemuyi today admitted her guilt to four
offences of fraud, two of possessing false
identity documents and three of forgery –
moments before she was due to stand trial.
Maidstone Crown Court heard that the
University of West London music, technology
and public relations graduate duped agencies
into getting her work by assuming the identity
of a fully qualified doctor and using false
documents.

After telling the regulatory body that she was
thinking of doing a master’s degree in mental
health, the council informed her that
qualification alone would not be sufficient,
and that she’d have to complete five years at
medical school during which it was required for
her to obtain degrees in medicine and surgery.
It was on the back of this rejection that her
fraudulent activities began.

‘She was to use Dr Adeyo’s GMC registration
number, utilising the similarity in their names
as part of her deception of a number of
agencies,’ said Mr Richter.

‘Miss Opemuyi conducted a brazen, sustained
and intelligent campaign of forgery and fraud
in order to obtain employment in a specialist
profession in which the public place the highest
degree of trust, when she was without
appropriate training or experience.’

As well as a fake GMC registration certificate,
Opemuyi was also presenting a forged driving
licence, passport and marriage certificate – all
of which she used when telling one employment
agency she’d been offered a job paying
£450,000-a-year.

Mr Richter said the total amount she
defrauded was £8,916 and she was jailed this
morning for two years and four months.
After sentencing, police inspector Ivan Beasley
said: ‘These were very serious offences
committed by a woman who went to great
lengths to gain employment as a doctor despite
not having the necessary qualifications to do
so.

‘In total she treated 91 patients, all of whom
have since been contacted by the NHS. They will
no doubt have been alarmed and concerned to
hear of Opemuyi’s actions, as was the legitimate
doctor whose identity she stole in order to
commit her crimes.

‘This was a complex investigation and I would
like to pay tribute to my team of officers who
worked extremely hard to get to the bottom of
the case and bring Opemuyi to justice.’

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Re: Damilola Opemuyi Used Stolen Doctor ID To Secure A Job Finally Arrested by Nobody: 4:08pm On Jul 25, 2015
undecided
Re: Damilola Opemuyi Used Stolen Doctor ID To Secure A Job Finally Arrested by shaiba(f): 4:11pm On Jul 25, 2015
maybe she is related to the one caught in Nigeria that has been working with fake documents as a doctor for over 8 years.
Re: Damilola Opemuyi Used Stolen Doctor ID To Secure A Job Finally Arrested by BellaSwan: 4:17pm On Jul 25, 2015
I just hope none of the patients she may have prescribed drugs to died.

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Re: Damilola Opemuyi Used Stolen Doctor ID To Secure A Job Finally Arrested by Nobody: 4:53pm On Jul 25, 2015
Damilola Opemuyi
Re: Damilola Opemuyi Used Stolen Doctor ID To Secure A Job Finally Arrested by dammytosh: 4:58pm On Jul 25, 2015
HE should be hanged.
Re: Damilola Opemuyi Used Stolen Doctor ID To Secure A Job Finally Arrested by swimcash(m): 7:20am On Jul 26, 2015
dammytosh:
HE should be hanged.
guess u just commented witout readin...lol , nigerian n short court
Re: Damilola Opemuyi Used Stolen Doctor ID To Secure A Job Finally Arrested by akonibobo: 11:29am On Jul 27, 2015
Omo Naija mi to sure. Thr are many roads that lead to the market grin
Re: Damilola Opemuyi Used Stolen Doctor ID To Secure A Job Finally Arrested by seankay(m): 11:32am On Jul 27, 2015
Original scammer

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