Drug dealer avoids deportation despite being jailed FIVE times in UK because his daughter might be transgender
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A Jamaican drug dealer has avoided deportation despite being jailed five times in Britain because his daughter “was experiencing issues with her gender identity”.
The father of three has been allowed to remain in the UK as a result of European human right laws.
Granted court anonymity, the man - known as “GH” - was imprisoned for three and a half years in 2021 after he was convicted of dealing crack and heroin, as well as attacking his partner in front of his children.
His actions led to his fifth trip to prison since his arrival in the UK in 1991.
Ex Conservative minister Sir Alec Shelbrooke took the opportunity to urge Britain to depart from the ECHR
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In an appeal against a Home Office deportation order, one of his defence lawyers claimed that one of his children “became withdrawn” while her father was in prison and “continued to struggle even after his release”.
They said: “The same child was experiencing issues with her gender identity, which she had only been able to discuss with her father.”
The case’s judge subsequently ruled that the man should remain in Britain, declaring that his right for a family life took precedence over public interest under the ECHR.
The Home Office was unsuccessful in a later appeal against Judge CL Taylor’s decision.
The Home Secretary is only legally required to deport foreign criminals who face jail times of more than a year and may deport those with shorter jail times - but only if it serves the public interest.
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Ex Conservative minister Sir Alec Shelbrooke urged Britain to depart from the ECHR, saying: “I am stunned by how poor a decision this is.
“We have to disentangle British law from the ECHR to stop decisions like these from being made.”
Reform MP Rupert Lowe also hit out at the news, saying: “If you come to our country and commit serious crime, you should be deported.
“We do not care about the criminal’s right to a family life.”
Reform MP Rupert Lowe has urged the Government to deport foreign criminals
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GH is the latest case of a foreign criminal dodging deportation. Last month’s Government figures from the Ministry of Justice revealed that such offenders released from prison have gone on to commit multiple offences as they plead to stay in the UK.
Across four years, 10,000 freed foreign criminals committed 40,000 offences, including murder, knife possession and drug dealing.
After acquiring this data, the MP for Great Yarmouth said: “Everyone who commits a crime should be deported. Why are we tolerating this, particularly when we see the reoffending rates are so high?”
Lowe has also encouraged Labour to exhibit greater transparency with data showing the amount of crimes committed by legal and illegal migrants.
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