A persistent offender from Libya cannot be deported because he would face severe punishment for drinking in his homeland, immigration court rules
A foreign criminal who has been convicted of more than 70 offences has been allowed to remain in Britain because he is an alcoholic.
In what is believed to be the first case of its kind, the Libyan man successfully argued that he would face physical punishment and imprisonment in his homeland, where alcohol consumption is illegal.
The man, who was granted anonymity by the courts and can only be identified by the initials ‘HU’, was said by the upper immigration tribunal to have “behaved disgracefully”.
It means the 53-year-old will be free to continue his alcohol-fuelled crime wave in Britain because the punishment he would face in Libya would be too severe, and because he has a “right to family life” in this country.
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