A convicted sex offender has won the right to remain in the UK despite doctors saying he still ‘acts inappropriately towards females’ – because judge said he faced the risk of ‘mob violence’ if he was sent back to Afghanistan.
The man was convicted of ‘outraging public decency and exposure’ in 2017 but was still given permission to stay in the UK.
This is despite doctors saying he ‘continues to act inappropriately towards females’ at his asylum appeal hearings.
But in immigration tribunal judge said he could not go back to Afghanistan in 2020, because his ‘risky behaviours’ would would put him at risk of ‘ill treatment’.
It comes after Home Secretary James Cleverly called for a light to be shone on tribunal decisions, many of which are shrouded in secrecy because judges often impose draconian reporting restrictions.
The tribunal courts have allowed more than half of asylum seekers to stay in country since 2021 – with most of the unsuccessful candidates staying illegally.
Immigration adviser Jayne Mercer said there were as many as 500 living in Hull alone who are living ‘in plain sight’.
She told the broadcaster: ‘It costs a lot of money to deport people. So they’re left in a situation of limbo.
‘Quite often, after a few attempts, they do get status.
This is funded by an average of more than £34million of taxpayers’ money since 2017, analysis of legal aid figures by the broadcaster reveal.
Director of public law at Duncan Lewis Ahmed Ayeed, whose company respresented the sex offender, slammed the suggestion lawyers are to blame for the crisis- saying the British public would be left furious if they knew the extent of the system’s failings.
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