'Mind-boggling!' Albanian criminal allowed to stay in Britain due to son's dislike of 'foreign' chicken nuggets

When he entered the country, he used a fake name and falsely claimed to have been born in the former Yugoslavia.

While his asylum claim was rejected, he secured UK citizenship in 2007 after being granted exceptional leave to remain, and then indefinite leave to remain.

He met his partner in 2006, another Albanian who had gained UK citizenship, with whom he had two daughters and a son. In September 2017, Disha was jailed for two years after being caught with £250,000 cash, known to be the proceeds of crime.

Then Home Secretary Priti Patel ordered he should be deported to Albania and stripped the 39-year-old of his UK citizenship as it had been acquired through deception.

However, Disha appealed and was backed by a judge at a lower-tier immigration tribunal. The judge ruled that deportation would be unfair to his son, named only as C, for him to remain in the UK and be separated from his father, or to be forced to go with him to Albania.

The case was focused on C’s "additional" needs, which were supported only by evidence from a trainee educational psychologist for whom, the court noted, no CV had been supplied, as well as evidence from a neighbour and a family friend.

The court was told there was no formal diagnosis of special educational needs for the boy, but he did have an educational plan to deal with his "emotional regulation, independence; reading and writing".

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An immigration tribunal ruled that it would be "unduly harsh" for C to be forced to move to Albania with his father owing to his sensitivity around food. The sole example provided to the court was his distaste for the "type of chicken nuggets that are available abroad."

Shadow home secretary Chris Philp told The Telegraph: "This case shows how bogus asylum seekers and foreign criminals are ruthlessly exploiting human rights laws and weak judges to stay in the UK when common sense clearly shows they should be kicked out."

Meanwhile. shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick called the ruling "mind boggling", adding: "It’s ludicrous that a judge would entertain it. Cases like this make us a laughing stock. It’s an insult to the British public that our immigration laws are being abused in such an outrageous way."

A Home Office spokesman said: “Foreign nationals who commit heinous crimes should be in no doubt that we will do everything to make sure they are not free on Britain’s streets, including removal from the UK at the earliest possible opportunity.

“Since the election, we’ve removed 2,580 foreign criminals, a 23 per cent increase on the same period 12 months prior.”

Thousands of migrants working illegally in nail bars, car washes and restaurants have been arrested as part of the Government’s efforts to tighten UK border security.

Some 3,930 arrests have been made across 5,424 visits by immigration enforcement officers from July 5, when Labour took power, to January 31.