Not such a Romanian poster boy after all
HE WAS the first person off the plane when Britain lifted visa restrictions on Romanians and Bulgarians three years ago.
Ever since, Victor Spirescu has been the unrivalled poster boy for EU migration, claiming to earn £60,000 a year through hard work.
But a woman who helped Mr Spirescu after he arrived in the UK says her kindness has been repaid with subterfuge, debts and excuses. Mr Spirescu even told her women were not his equal.
Single mother Anne Brown took Mr Spirescu into her home after her daughter Zoe, 22, met him last summer. He said he had nowhere to live, having been kicked out by his girlfriend.
Zoe then fell for Mr Spirescu and the pair became a couple. But while Zoe would shortly find herself broken-hearted when Mr Spirescu returned to his ex, her mother was left with an £879 bill. For unbeknown to her, during his six-week stay at her house in Hendon, North London, Mr Spirescu used the address to register his car. After he left in September, there followed a stream of parking fines and official letters, culminating last month in a visit from bailiffs demanding money following an accident. Mrs Brown settled the debt but is still waiting for him to repay it. ‘He won’t answer his phone,’ she said.
Mr Spirescu, who was welcomed by Labour MP Keith Vaz when he arrived from Romania, said Mrs Brown’s claim was ‘b ****** t’ but admitted staying at her home with Zoe: ‘I slept in a single bed in a single room with her and paid her mother £100 a week. I never crashed a car.’