A Brazilian man who used documents he bought on the internet to get a job with Amazon has been jailed.

Ricardo Alves Da Cruz Filho was caught when he tried to open a bank account to deposit his pay cheque in a town centre bank.

And the 31-year-old has asked to be deported after he has finished the custodial part of his six month prison sentence imposed at Swindon Crown Court.

Colin Meeke, prosecuting, said Filho used his own Brazilian passport when he arrived at Gatwick airport last November, on a flight from Amsterdam.

While he was staying at a friend's house in Pinehurst last December he registered with PMP Recruitment using what appeared to be a Portuguese ID card.

They took a copy of the document, in the name of Ricardo Henrico-Fernandes, and two days later he started work with Amazon, getting paid every Friday.

"It was payment by cheque that was his undoing. He went to Metro Bank in Regent Street on January 4 to open a bank account," Mr Meeke said.

"He presented the card in the name of Ricardo Henrico-Fernandes as a form of ID to open the account.

"It was the bank's security checks that revealed the card was counterfeit. They kept the defendant talking until the police arrived and arrested him."

He said the card was seized and when police searched the house he was staying in they found his own passport.

When he was questioned he said that he had bought the document online for £800 telling officers he did not think it was fake.

Filho, of Wheeler Avenue, pleaded guilty to two counts of possessing an identity document with improper intention.

Giving an oral report probation officer Andy Pearson said the South American had been in contact with a Youtuber who said he knew about Brazilian ancestry.

He told the defendant that he had a Portuguese past and sold him the paperwork for £800 which Filho said he thought was genuine.

Rob Ross, defending, said that having been in custody since his arrest his client now wanted to go home to his wife and child.

He said he had contacted the Border Force, rather than they finding him, and said he wished to be deported.

When he gets back he said he hoped he could return to his job as a manager with Volkswagen in Brazil.

He said that while he had used the fake ID card it was to get a job, on which he paid tax and National Insurance, having come into the country legally on his own passport.

Jailing him Judge Tim Mousley QC said "Offences which involved the use of false identity are always regarded as serious and nearly always require the imposition of an immediate custodial sentence, albeit it certain circumstances a relatively short one."