I repeated “please don’t be Black, please don’t be Black” while conducting an image search for this entry. Guess what? She was Black.

A voodoo-obsessed mum who unveiled what she claimed was her baby daughter’s disembodied fingers during her trial has been convicted of a £1m benefit scam.

Remi Fakorede, 46, offered the three digits as macabre proof of a curse which led to her bank accounts being hijacked during the five-year tax credit scam.

The mother of six left at least one of the jurors in tears during her evidence when she pulled out the three fingers and police arrived to seize the surprise exhibits.

The stunt - which she had not even warned her barrister about - was slammed as ‘foolish’ by fuming trial judge Jacqueline Beech.

Fakorede, of King Edwards Road, South Hackney, risked the case - costing the taxpayer tens of thousands of pounds - when she produced the fingers days from the end of the trial.

The jury rejected her bizarre defence and found her guilty of the con in which she submitted 39 claims for tax credits, largely for children she had invented. [source]