A Polish drug dealer deported from Britain used a passport in her marital surname to re-enter the country in a ‘desperate attempt to try and save her marriage’, a court heard.
Karolina Grochowska had been jailed for 33 months for possessing cocaine with intent to supply, freed early and deported in June.
But a few months later, on November 2, she was stopped at Holyhead ferry port, Anglesey, attempting to return to the country by the ‘back door’, using her married name of Mroczek.
There have been a number of recent court cases in North Wales where foreign nationals have sought to sneak into Britain illegally from Ireland, through Holyhead.
Grochowska, 32-year-old mother, admitted a charge that on November 2 at Holyhead she travelled with another person’s passport and entered the UK in breach of a deportation order made at the end of June.
During a sentencing hearing at Caernarfon Crown Court on Friday, defence barrister Elen Owen explained the unusual reason for Grochowska – whose previous offending had been in Kent – returning to Britain.
Ms Owen said her husband of three years lived and worked in London as a forklift driver.
The barrister said: ‘She has tried to get around the deportation by not fully revealing her previous convictions and coming in knowing she wasn’t supposed to.
‘It was a desperate attempt to try and save her marriage. She had pleaded with him to return to Poland to no avail.’
Grochowska was jailed for a further six months. But the judge said the likelihood was she faced deportation again.
