Pamela Izevbekhai could be charged with perjury for supplying fake documents to support her asylum claim in court, the Sunday Tribune can reveal.

Izevbekhai has been fighting a court battle to prevent her family's deportation on the grounds that her two daughters Naomi (7) and Jemima (6) will be subjected to female genital mutilation if they are deported to Nigeria.

However, she admitted last weekend that death certificate documents she supplied to the courts about another daughter she claimed died from genital mutilation in 1994 were forged.

A Nigerian doctor has sworn an affidavit that he never treated Elizabeth Izevbekhai who Pamela says died in July 1994 when she was 17 months old.

If the Supreme Court accepts the evidence of Dr Joseph Unokanjo then it has the option of submitting a file to the DPP recommending Izevbekhai be charged with perjury.

In a separate development, detective inspector Philip Ryan from the Garda National Immigration Bureau (GNIB) visited the births, deaths and burials office in Lagos last month but found no records to confirm Elizabeth Izevbekhai ever existed. Supporters of Izevbekhai have said not all births and deaths are registered in Nigeria.

The Department of Foreign Affairs wrote to the European Court of Human Rights on 25 March seeking the interim measure of preventing the deportation of Izevbekhai and her two children be removed in light of new evidence of forged documentation.

Pamela Izevbekhai has stood over her claim that she had a baby daughter who died from blood loss as a result of FGM and said her husband supplied her with the fake documents unbeknown to her.

However, in his sworn affidavit Dr Joseph Unokanjo, medical director of the Isioma hospital in Lagos, has claimed Izevbekhai telephoned him in the last couple of years looking for fake documents claiming she had a daughter who died in 1994 to support her asylum application in Ireland.