Farah Damji

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name = Farah Damji


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Farah Damji is a writer, and former editor and publisher who is also notable for an alleged affair with the travel writer William Dalrymple and more recent conviction on fraud charges.cite news | url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,29389-2287515,00.html | title=On-the-run thief boasts of freedom on internet | publisher=The Times | accessdate=2006-07-27 | date=2006-07-27 | author=Sean O’Neill ] . She is the daughter of property tycoon Amir Damji, who lives in South Africa and in London; she has two children .

Ms Damji was jailed in Rikers Island prison, New York, during 6 months for grand larceny and forgery.

She migrated from the United States to the United Kingdom and became the publisher and editor of the lifestyle magazine "Another Generation" for the British Asian diaspora before it folded.

On 13 October 2005 she was jailed in the UK for three and a half years for defrauding thousands of pounds out of dozens of victims and perverting the course of justice . The latter charge stemmed from the fact that she posed as an aide to the Home Secretary, as well as pretending to be from the Crown Prosecution Service, to try to stop her court case cite news | url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/10/14/ntrial14.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/10/14/ixhome.html | title=Woman posed as Blunkett aide to stop her own trial | publisher=The Telegraph | accessdate=2006-07-27 | date=2005-10-14 | author=Catriona Davies ] .

She was released from Downview Prison in Surrey on July 22, 2006 to attend a meeting with her Open University tutor, but did not return as required that same day . She subsequently created a blog, telling her story of life 'on the run' [ [http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=4&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.myspace.com%2Findex.cfm%3Ffuseaction%3Dblog.ListAll%26friendID%3D95043211&ei=0o0wRuiyLaignQO0xYmwBA&usg=AFrqEzd446hf7kB9TmXJvDtAStfESM6LkQ&sig2=YyQpm00ALZ1WaS9RleyyxQ Farah Damji's Blog at MySpace] ] . According to a BBC report, she was re-arrested by police five days later, on July 27. cite news | url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/5242934.stm| title=Jailbird blogger back in prison | publisher=BBC News | accessdate=2006-08-03 | date=2006-08-03] .

More recently, Farah has announced that she is working on an autobiography. cite news | url= http://news.independent.co.uk/people/pandora/article2481034.ece| title=Farah fuels her feud | publisher=The Independent | accessdate=2007-04-26 | date=2006-04-24] .

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