You could not make this up. So, prepare yourself. Two blood pressure tablets and a bottle of Veuve Clicquot should do it. The first thing to know about the man at the centre of my story is that he is Pakistani.
And he is the sort of Pakistani this country doesn’t want. And you know for sure what that means. You’re right. He will definitely be allowed to stay here.
He came to this country in 2010 and lived with his wife. It’s not clear why his wife was already here.
The marriage broke down after he assaulted her and was convicted of battery for his domestic violence. Why wasn’t he kicked out then you ask. Good question; he was granted leave to stay because of his relationship with his son. Astonishing.
Astonishing - a Pakistani paedophile can't be deported because he's an alcoholic - Kelvin MacKenzie
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Things became more serious. In 2020 he was jailed for a year for assaulting an emergency worker when ‘’heavily intoxicated.’’ So he’s now a wife beater and a jail bird. And we still can’t kick him out.
Two years later he crosses the line again. Even more seriously. He sexually assaulted a 13-year-old girl this time and is jailed for a further year. Surely that must be the end of his time in our country? No.
He lodges an appeal against deportation and a psychiatrist’s evidence is useful for him as he tells the court that the Pakistani has alcohol dependency. How might you ask is having a drink problem going to keep you here? Another good question.
The answer is that the alcoholism wouldn’t work for him in Pakistan where possessing alcohol is illegal for Muslims of which he one.
His lawyers, of which we are paying, argued he would be ‘’punished’’ with imprisonment and claimed it is well known that prison conditions in Pakistan are ‘’inhuman and degrading’’. I would have thought for scum like that would be entirely appropriate.
The Home Office, fighting like fury to throw this scum out argued quite reasonably that it was down to the Pakistani to ‘’take responsibility’’ and should comply with the law of his land and ‘’change his behaviour.’’
It added that while it might be difficult it was not open to him to simply say he would drink and end up in prison.
Judge Leanne Turner rejected the Home Office view and said the Pakistani could stay here. The Home Office appealed. And then common sense took over.
Keir Starmer must remove us from the European Court of Human Rights.
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Judge Soraya Reed said that the previousevidence did not show that the man would definitely go to prison in Pakistan,
‘’Given that there are likely to be Muslims in Pakistan who drink and possess alcohol, the assertion that all will be arrested, prosecuted and indeed receive imprisonment is not evidenced’’, said Judge Reed.
And therefore the case was sent back to the lower tribunal with the order that the Pakistani was kicked out. We should keep our fingers crossed.
I learn about this shocking case thanks to a campaign being run by The Telegraph. Without their excellent journalism all this would be going on without the public, who are paying for these people to be legally represented, ever knowing what was going on.
Other cases they have spotlighted include an Albanian criminal who avoided deportation after claiming his son had an aversion to foreign chicken nuggets and another Pakistani paedo who was jailed for child sex offences but escaped removal because it would ‘’unduly harsh’’ on his own children.
There will be many more stories like this as there 41,987 outstanding immigration appeals. If Labour refuses to leave European Court of Human Rights at least change an aspect of that law so that cases like this, where jail is involved, will mean an automatic exit.
Surely, that’s the least we can ask.