A LABOUR councillor hired an illegal immigrant as a nanny and paid her cash in hand, a court heard.
Hina Mir, 45, gave Indian Himanshi Gongley £1,200 a month to care for her two children.
But Ms Gongley had no legal right to be here as her student visa had expired.
Mir — on West London’s Hounslow council — was rumbled when the nanny flagged down a police car last year and claimed she was abused.
Mir, Hounslow deputy mayor in 2020, was fined £40,000 in January for an immigration law breach.
The qualified solicitor has now lost an appeal against the fine at City of London county court.
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The judge said her evidence had “inconsistencies”.
Judge Stephen Hellman said: “The inconsistencies in the appellant’s evidence mean I cannot place much reliance on her evidence as I normally would.”
Last week, Mir was allegedly caught illegally parking her BMW in a disabled bay.
The car was parked in the bay while a council meeting was taking place last week.
