Grenfell fire crook jailed for 6 years
A DRUG dealer who received almost £87,000 in funds after falsely claiming he lived in Grenfell Tower in the wake of the fire has been jailed for more than six years.
Yonatan Eyob, 26, was put up in West London’s Holland Park Hilton for 11 months and given a food allowance and pre-paid cards. Drugs, including MDMA and cocaine, and seven mobile phones were found in his hotel room, with about £3,000 in cash, designer clothes, jewellery and credit cards.
Eyob, who claimed he had been lodging with a friend in Flat 182, home to a family of five who died in the 2017 blaze, pleaded guilty to fraud by false representation in June.
At Isleworth Crown Court yesterday, Judge Giles CurtisRaleigh said he ‘profited from the deaths of victims’. Eyob is the first British-born Grenfell fraudster to be convicted and the eighth to go to prison.