And it all went wrong as the Nigerian groom picked A Celine Dion's song The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face to walk down the aisle for a sham marriage to a woman he had met only once before.
Leeds University masters student Jayeola Abiola, 29, first saw Portuguese 'bride' Vania Pinheiro-Fernandes, 29, at the dress rehearsal and struggled to pronounce her name.
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| Sham marriage fixer Abiola Kumoye (bottom) admitted conspiracy to break immigration law by arranging a bogus wedding between Nigerian groom Jayeola Abiola and Portuguese 'bride' Vania Pinheiro-Fernandes. Alleged Best Man Ayodeji Abbis (top) denies his part in the plot |
But clearly confident he would get away with the con, he planned for the Canadian singer's love song to be blasted out in Hull's Guildhall to cement their bogus life together.
However, UK Border Agency officers had been tipped off and he was arrested before he even made it into the grand 19th century building.
Abiola, 29, of Grafton Street, Hull, and Pinheiro-Fernandes, of Park Hotel, Manchester, pleaded guilty at Hull Crown Court to conspiracy to breach immigration law by arranging a marriage so Abiola could remain in the UK.
Fixer Abiola Kumoye, 34, of Shillingford Road, Manchester, wept in court as he also pleaded guilty to conspiracy to breach immigration law and acquiring criminal property of £2,650, the first part of the fee for the sham marriage.
The court heard how the UK Border Agency had been called by the Hull Registrar who said the couple seemed to barely know each other when they were interviewed at the rehearsal.
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