‘Grenfell imposter’: Blaze 'survivor' 'took' donations meant for genuine victims
A DIVORCEE posing as a Grenfell Tower survivor filled a hotel room “to bursting” with donations meant for real victims, a court was told yesterday.
Joyce Msokeri posed as a Grenfell Tower survivor
Joyce Msokeri, 47, “took the opportunity to grab as much as she could”, a jury heard.
Msokeri "feigned trauma convincingly" in the wake of the fatal fire, telling authorities she had lost her husband despite being single and living miles away, prosecutors allege.
She appeared at Southwark Crown Court in a wheelchair where she denied fraudulently claiming cash, a hotel room at a Hilton, food and clothing.
The jury was told that the day after the west London blaze on June 15 last year Msokeri turned up and claimed to have survived the fire which left 71 dead.
In fact she was miles away in her real home in Sutton, south-west London, prosecutor David Jeremy said.
He said: “Msokeri was able to carry out this deceit because she was a very good actress. She feigned trauma convincingly.”
She was allowed access to donated clothes and other goods and helped herself to so many of the items that her room at the Hilton became “full to bursting”, he added.
The trial continues.