By . Nazia Parveen . PUBLISHED: . 10:52 EST, 28 February 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 19:07 EST, 28 February 2013 . A sham marriage scam was rumbled after a fake bride went on holiday with another man only six days after her wedding to a Vietnamese groom. Amanda Nolan, 28, was handed £5,000 to enter into a ‘marriage of convenience’ arranged in her local nail salon. She used the cash to pay for a two-week holiday in Mexico with John Doyle. But after they fell out while away, he told the police the trip had been paid for by the wedding scam. Amanda Nolan (left) and Gemma Nelson (right) took part in sham weddings organised by Trang Thi Thuy Luu . It led to Nolan, Kevin Donnelly, Jason . Proctor, Denny Wallace and Gemma Nelson appearing at Preston Crown . Court accused of entering into, or witnessing, sham weddings to keep . Vietnamese immigrants in the UK on marriage visas. The court heard that Britons were . offered up to £10,000 to enter into the ‘marriages of convenience’ with . the Vietnamese, who were on temporary visas. Trang Thi Thuy Luu, known as Louise, . was the ‘spider at the centre of a web’. The Vietnamese nail bar owner . was the chief organiser of a ‘carefully orchestrated operation’ to match . Britons to her friends and family in bogus ceremonies. Luu, 24, who is . now on the run, used her connections as the manager of three Miss Nails . nail bars in Preston, Chorley and Blackburn to entice three Britons into . sham weddings between 2008 and 2010. It enabled her friends and family to successfully apply to the Home Office for visas to remain in Britain. Elizabeth Nicholls, prosecuting, said: . ‘She arranged her own sham marriage and then went on to make . arrangements to facilitate the marriages of friends and relatives.’ Scam: Trang Thi Thuy Luu ran three nail salons based in Preston, Chorley (pictured) and Blackburn, where she enticed Britons into sham weddings between 2008 and 2010 . Trang Thi Thuy Luu (left) is wanted for organising sham weddings with participants like Jason Proctor (right) But Miss Nicholls said ‘the edifice of . these marriages came tumbling down’ following the sham wedding of Nolan . to Tuan Hoang Lu in October 2010. Mother-of-one Nolan, a regular at one . of the nail bars, had confided in Luu about her financial problems. She . was paid £5,000 to marry the Miss Nails employee at Blackburn Register . Office. Wallace was a witness. CCTV footage obtained by police showed several Chinese guests behaving ‘appropriately’ at the reception at a country club. But Nolan and her co-defendants were . heavily under the influence of alcohol and treated the occasion as ‘a . joke and a farce’. And later Mr Doyle told police that the scam had paid . for the holiday in Mexico. Sham: Denny Wallace (left) had been a witness at a sham marriage and Kevin Donnelly also took part in a wedding, and got around £1,500 for it . Nolan was arrested in February 2011 . and later that month police raided Luu’s home in Preston and found . documents that were ‘stock in trade’ for bogus weddings including . passports, birth certificates and wedding photographs. Donnelly, 34, entered a sham marriage . with Luu in October 2008 at Blackburn Register Office, which was . witnessed by Nelson. He was said to have received £1,500. Proctor, 40, was paid around £2,000 to . enter into a sham marriage to Vietnamese nail bar worker Le Thi Le . Quyen at the register office in May 2010. He claimed in court that it . was a genuine love match. Donnelly was paid £500 as a witness. Nolan, of . Blackburn, and Donnelly, of Oswaldtwistle, pleaded guilty to taking . part in sham marriages. Donnelly also admitted to being a witness at a . fake ceremony, as did Wallace, 22, and Nelson, 28, both of Blackburn. Proctor, of Blackburn, denied entering . into a sham marriage, but was convicted after a trial. All will be . sentenced later this month. Crime scene: The weddings happened at Blackburn Register Office in Lancashire (pictured) Sorry we are unable to accept comments for legal reasons.
Trang Thi Thuy Luu matched friends and family with willing Britons for cash .
She had first organised one for herself before doing three more .
Grooms and witnesses were often paid thousands to take part .
Her three nail bars were used to allow people to claim they had jobs .
By . Nazia Parveen . PUBLISHED: . 10:52 EST, 28 February 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 19:07 EST, 28 February 2013 . A sham marriage scam was rumbled after a fake bride went on holiday with another man only six days after her wedding to a Vietnamese groom. Amanda Nolan, 28, was handed £5,000 to enter into a ‘marriage of convenience’ arranged in her local nail salon. She used the cash to pay for a two-week holiday in Mexico with John Doyle. But after they fell out while away, he told the police the trip had been paid for by the wedding scam. Amanda Nolan (left) and Gemma Nelson (right) took part in sham weddings organised by Trang Thi Thuy Luu . It led to Nolan, Kevin Donnelly, Jason . Proctor, Denny Wallace and Gemma Nelson appearing at Preston Crown . Court accused of entering into, or witnessing, sham weddings to keep . Vietnamese immigrants in the UK on marriage visas. The court heard that Britons were . offered up to £10,000 to enter into the ‘marriages of convenience’ with . the Vietnamese, who were on temporary visas. Trang Thi Thuy Luu, known as Louise, . was the ‘spider at the centre of a web’. The Vietnamese nail bar owner . was the chief organiser of a ‘carefully orchestrated operation’ to match . Britons to her friends and family in bogus ceremonies. Luu, 24, who is . now on the run, used her connections as the manager of three Miss Nails . nail bars in Preston, Chorley and Blackburn to entice three Britons into . sham weddings between 2008 and 2010. It enabled her friends and family to successfully apply to the Home Office for visas to remain in Britain. Elizabeth Nicholls, prosecuting, said: . ‘She arranged her own sham marriage and then went on to make . arrangements to facilitate the marriages of friends and relatives.’ Scam: Trang Thi Thuy Luu ran three nail salons based in Preston, Chorley (pictured) and Blackburn, where she enticed Britons into sham weddings between 2008 and 2010 . Trang Thi Thuy Luu (left) is wanted for organising sham weddings with participants like Jason Proctor (right) But Miss Nicholls said ‘the edifice of . these marriages came tumbling down’ following the sham wedding of Nolan . to Tuan Hoang Lu in October 2010. Mother-of-one Nolan, a regular at one . of the nail bars, had confided in Luu about her financial problems. She . was paid £5,000 to marry the Miss Nails employee at Blackburn Register . Office. Wallace was a witness. CCTV footage obtained by police showed several Chinese guests behaving ‘appropriately’ at the reception at a country club. But Nolan and her co-defendants were . heavily under the influence of alcohol and treated the occasion as ‘a . joke and a farce’. And later Mr Doyle told police that the scam had paid . for the holiday in Mexico. Sham: Denny Wallace (left) had been a witness at a sham marriage and Kevin Donnelly also took part in a wedding, and got around £1,500 for it . Nolan was arrested in February 2011 . and later that month police raided Luu’s home in Preston and found . documents that were ‘stock in trade’ for bogus weddings including . passports, birth certificates and wedding photographs. Donnelly, 34, entered a sham marriage . with Luu in October 2008 at Blackburn Register Office, which was . witnessed by Nelson. He was said to have received £1,500. Proctor, 40, was paid around £2,000 to . enter into a sham marriage to Vietnamese nail bar worker Le Thi Le . Quyen at the register office in May 2010. He claimed in court that it . was a genuine love match. Donnelly was paid £500 as a witness. Nolan, of . Blackburn, and Donnelly, of Oswaldtwistle, pleaded guilty to taking . part in sham marriages. Donnelly also admitted to being a witness at a . fake ceremony, as did Wallace, 22, and Nelson, 28, both of Blackburn. Proctor, of Blackburn, denied entering . into a sham marriage, but was convicted after a trial. All will be . sentenced later this month. Crime scene: The weddings happened at Blackburn Register Office in Lancashire (pictured) Sorry we are unable to accept comments for legal reasons.
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