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Fake court interpreter earned £65,500 from 140 cases including grooming gang trial
Mirwais Patang forged qualifications and stole a legitimate interpreter’s identity
Translation work for foreign crime suspects costs UK £450,000 a week
Ministry of Justice spent £23.4 million in just over a year, much of it on Polish, Lithuanian and Romanian speakers
House of Lords on NHS interpreters
The care of interpreters is an incredibly complex question and entirely depends on where they are sited. It is the responsibility of individual trusts to look after interpreters in hospital settings but, in other settings, it may be that of other organisations.
Police interpreter hired to talk to a Slovak ‘couldn’t speak the language’
A police interpreter hired to talk to a Slovak couldn’t speak the lingo, it was claimed.
Another translator told force chiefs the blunder could have jeopardised a domestic slavery trial.
