The soap opera continues — Farah Damji, the ex-publisher of the British Asian mag Another Generation, is on the lam:

Damji, 39… has absconded from Downview prison in Surrey where she is serving a 3½-year sentence for dishonesty and perverting the course of justice. The former editor of the Asian lifestyle magazine Another Generation was released to attend a tutorial as part of the… sociology degree for which she was studying while in prison. She was expected to return on Saturday night, but was still on the run yesterday and advertising her freedom on her blog on [MySpace]…

Damji, who has had treatment in jail for drug problems and has a borderline personality disorder, [also] served a six-month sentence at Rikers Island jail in New York for grand larceny and forgery. [Link]

She continues to blog on MySpace:

Apparantly the Prison Service is trying to close down my blog. So much for the freedoms we take for granted. This country and everything about it makes me sick. [Link]

Lighten up guys and girls, go focus on dodgy curry kings and cash / loans / donations for our political leaders. [Link]

It feels incredibly strange to be allowed this taste of freedom again. It’s the silly things I missed, my Pratesi bed linen, the smell of my daughter’s golden brown hair and the way the sun dances in her eyes like fire in a forest, watching my son’s sportsday. [Link]

And took some potshots at Asians In Media:

BUT Sunny Eggdial of that silly rqacist website is postig news articles about me. Once I asked him why he did it, he answered because he got three times more hits on his site whenever he did. The price w pay for stardom, darlings. Anyway, can’t engage with that lot who see everything in trms of ethnicity, brown v white. There are bigger and more important battles out there. But so it goes, he continues to run his site from his mother’s sitting room in sunny Southall. [Link]

Her crime spree was reportedly extensive and pathological:

Two years ago, the New York Post said of her past: “Damji - who has several aliases - falsified documents, forged checks, ripped off artists, stole from associates and terrorized ex-boyfriends. She was finally indicted for padding a certified check with extra zeroes and forging a court document ordering the release of her possessions, which had been seized. Her antics continued post-release with a similar spree in East Hampton… Her lies and deceit have left a trail of debts that stretches as far as South Africa, from where she was deported…”

In October 2002 she stole her nanny Milla Salminen’s credit card and ran up a bill of £3,903 with 61 purchases, including a stay at the Crowne Plaza hotel in Birmingham.

In October 2004, while on bail, she did the same with marketing assistant Darshika Mahavir. Mahavir had come to her house after being invited for a sales pitch, but found her credit card was stolen by Damji to buy clothing worth £1,030 from Harvey Nichols. Damji was arrested but again released on bail.

The following month she stole a credit card from Rakhee Gokani, who was organising a magazine photo shoot for Another Generation’s front cover. Her card was used 34 times for purchases amounting to £2,639…

In January Damji telephoned jewellers Boodle and Dunthorne to ask if she could have the use of two diamond and platinum rings worth £10,550. She pretended to be working for Kiki King, showbusiness correspondent for the Daily Mail at the time. The rings were never recovered…

… she stole freelance journalist Ambarina Hasan’s credit card. That was used to open a savings account in Ambarina’s name and obtain a £18,000 loan from Sainsbury’s. She also stole two credit cards and a driving licence from a friend, Nazia Soonsara, to try to steal her identity. Damji was arrested on May 14 after tracker dogs found her hiding in her garden in Hampshire… [Link]

We nominate her as the next Wonkette. Who needs to blog about scandal when you can simply make it?