Cases Such As This Must Be Costing The British Taxpayer Thousands Upon Thousands Of Pounds.

[anotheoldgit]

/// Two years later Ali had an asylum claim and an appeal rejected, but he was not deported for reasons unknown. ///

We often blame the ECOHR or even our own appal judges, but could this be the Home Office's fault?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2316026/Convicted-drug-dealer-abandoned-children-allowed-stay-Britain-girlfriend.html

/// He told Judge Jonathan Perkins he had a ‘genuine’ relationship with his British beautician girlfriend Cy Harwood, 31, and that his life would be in danger in Iraq because he was covered in tattoos. ///

[jim360]

appeal judges or applling judges -- or perhaps both?

It's an odd case, and one when I can't quite get to grips with. Still, you never know, the relationship might well be genuine. And Cy Harwood may love him back, too, and she might suffer if he were deported. However much of a nutter he is.

Or it could all be made up, trying to get him to stay in the country when he should be kicked out. I'm glad I'm not the judge...

[Brancaster]

Well I hope Mrs May starts an appeal to a superior court. IMO she shouldnt have to - the Home Office made their decision and that should be final. No appeals to soft, out-of-touch relics on the bench. It may initially have been an error on the part of the Home Office but it can be remedied simply enough by kicking him out now.

[jno]

terrible thing to have the rule of law, isn't it

[FredPuli43]

Odd. The right to family life is a fundamental part of universal human rights but surely wasn't intended to apply to this,and similar, cases. It was intended for the kind of abuses inflicted by Stalin and others,when a whole family would be split and parents never see their children again and the like.

This man's family life is only affected to the degree that, if he was deported, he'd have to arrange for his partner to join him. We may add to that that he should have known the risk before committing the crime