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Edinburgh Live
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Alan McEwen

Midlothian porridge firm worker had fake ID linked to African presidential candidate

A man caught working illegally at a Scots porridge factory was using fake ID linked to a presidential candidate in Gambia who shared his name.

Ismaila Ceesay fled his Gambian homeland to Scotland to escape a wave of murders which claimed the lives of family members, a court heard.

Ceesay later secured a job at the Stoats factory making porridge bars in Midlothian.

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