Oh no! Archbishop of York John Sentamu and the happy couple now facing jail over immigration scam

The Archbishop of York Dr John Sentamu gave evidence against the Bisaso couple achieved British passports illegally

He told the jury he had been a colleague of Bisaso’s father, George, in Uganda.
In 1996, he conducted Bisaso’s first marriage at Holy Trinity Church in Tulse Hill, South London – Dr Sentamu’s last placement as a vicar before becoming Bishop of Stepney later that year. In 2005 he became Archbishop of York.
Bisaso arrived in the UK in the early 1990s and studied theology at the University of Gloucestershire between 1996 and 1999.
He later became a chaplain for the Mission to Seafarers church charity in Immingham, near Grimsby.
Bisaso and his wife, who have three children aged between two and nine, were arrested last year after a year-long investigation by the UK Border Agency

Newly betrothed, the happy couple pose outside church alongside the vicar who married them, John Sentamu.
But behind the scene of bliss is an extraordinary tale of immigration deception which ended with Dr Sentamu, now the Archbishop of York, giving evidence against the couple.
Samuel Bisaso and Rebecca Muwonge are currently facing jail after being found guilty of an elaborate attempt to stay in the country which involved a subsequent second bogus wedding using a false identity.
The picture of their first, genuine, wedding proved to be the crucial piece of evidence in the trial.
The picture shows the day Dr Sentamu, then a vicar in a South London parish, married Mr Bisaso and Miss Muwonge in 1996.
Six years later, he ordained Mr Bisaso as a clergyman in the Church of Uganda, and he went on to be a chaplain in the Church of England.
But Dr Sentamu could not have known that the Rev Bisaso – the son of one of Dr Sentamu’s former colleagues in the Church of Uganda – had remarried his wife two years after the original ceremony, when she had hijacked the identity of her 18-year-old niece, Proscovia Kasozi, a British citizen.
The fake identity allowed Bisaso and his wife, both 44, to acquire British passports illegally.
Dr Sentamu, the second most senior cleric in the Church of England after the Archbishop of Canterbury, was called to give evidence during the two-week trial of the couple at Hove Crown Court, East Sussex.
His wife claimed that their second wedding was valid and that she really was her own niece. But the jury was shown a wedding photograph, seized from the mantelpiece of the couple’s home in Keelby, near Grimsby, which shows Dr Sentamu alongside the happy couple, torpedoing their defence.
He was called on again in 2002 to ordain Bisaso as a minister in the Church of Uganda, still unaware of his friend’s efforts to deceive the UK immigration authorities.
The Archbishop said he was careful to check the couple’s documentation when they married.
‘With anyone who is not a British citizen I have to make sure I am working within the rules,’ he said.The couple were found guilty of making false statements that they were unmarried at their second wedding and possessing false passports.
Bisaso was also convicted of two charges of obtaining leave to remain in the UK by deception while his wife was found guilty of two offences of assisting unlawful immigration.
Mrs Bisaso’s sister Rose Kasozi, 55, was convicted of making a false declaration as a witness to the second marriage. Her husband James Kasozi, 59, was found guilty of assisting unlawful immigration by falsely claiming that Mrs Bisaso was his daughter.
Judge David Rennie adjourned sentence until January for reports but warned the couple that ‘custodial sentences seem inevitable’.