A couple arrested as they attempted to stage a bogus wedding have been jailed for immigration offences - after the would-be groom was unable to remember his bride's name.
Pakistani Zubair Khan, 28, and Hungarian Beata Szilagyi, 33, were detained minutes before the sham marriage ceremony, the Home Office said.
They were exposed after Khan had to make a phone call to the marriage fixer, Khaliq Dad Khan, to check his bride's name during a meeting with the registrar before the wedding was due to go ahead.
The registrar then notified authorities and the bride and groom were detained on the spot at Hull Register Office last October.
Zubair Khan, of London, was jailed for 20 months and Szilagyi, of Hull, was sentenced to 17 months at Hull Crown Court on Friday.
They both admitted conspiracy to facilitate a breach of immigration law.
Khaliq Dad Khan, 48, who lived with the groom, was jailed for 20 months after pleading guilty to the same charge.
Andy Sharpe, from Immigration Enforcement Criminal Investigations, said: "This was a farcical but nonetheless serious attempt to cheat the UK's immigration laws.
"We continue to crack down on sham marriage abuse, and we work very closely with registrars to identify suspicious marriages. We will not hesitate to act where we believe a relationship is not genuine."
Immigration and Security Minister James Brokenshire said: "The criminal gangs who try to cheat their way around our immigration laws will not escape justice."
He added that investigators had intervened in more than 2,400 suspected sham marriages in 2014 - nearly twice as many as the year before.
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