An Albanian man who tried to enter Britain illegally four times before being jailed for cannabis farming has avoided deportation after a judge ruled he did not meet the legal definition of a “foreign criminal”. The Mail has more.
Erind Koka, 33, came into the country unlawfully on a lorry in October 2019 after seven years of attempting to do so.
Within less than a year, in February 2020, he was convicted for involvement in class B drug production – “the watering, on one occasion of cannabis plants” – and sentenced to eight months in prison.
It was decided two years later, in February 2022, he would be deported because it was considered “conducive to the public good”, as he was a “foreign criminal” who had caused “serious harm” with his offending.
But after Koka appealed in October 2023, it was ruled he did not actually count as a “foreign criminal” – and so he was allowed to stay in the country. The Home Office appealed this ruling but it was upheld.
The judge said he did not count as a “foreign criminal” because under the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002, offenders need to fulfil some of three specific criteria to be labelled as such.
They need to have been given a prison sentence of at least 12 months, convicted of “an offence that has caused serious harm” – the basis of Koka’s deportation, as his sentence was only eight months – or be a “persistent offender”.
A first-tier tribunal judge said Koka’s offence “fell significantly short of one that can be said to have caused serious harm”, meaning he did not count as a “foreign criminal” – and did not need to be deported.
When the decision to deport Koka was first made in February 2022, he raised an international protection claim as a refugee – but this was withdrawn a year later, in February 2023.
He appealed his deportation on human rights grounds in the October of that year and it was heard by a first-tier tribunal in August 2024, where the judge ruled in his favour. The upper tribunal upheld the decision after the Home Office appealed it.
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Sometimes ( actually, often ) I wonder just what it is going to take for people ( the majority? ) to realise that the government and all of its affiliates are actively out to harm them. How many different examples across all contexts do we need? It’s like the ‘Scamdemic’ never happened or people have selective amnesia because surely a better example in recent history does not exist. There should be precisely zero public trust in government, or anyone else in authority, at his point in time, zero. And yet here we are. Same sh*t, different day, and on and on it goes…What is there that’s new to say about this particular topic? Nothing, because this news is continuous and relentless so that it basically becomes non-news, unfortunately. Only a new and better government can help you now;
”Without Third World peoples living in the West, left-liberals lose not only their principal point of attack on traditional conservatism, but the reason for their very existence as the ‘anti-racist’ opposition. If they cannot drive themselves to revolutionary fervour with their cries of ‘racist’ and ‘xenophobe’ in their denunciation of the conservative foe, then they can only wither and die along with their revolutionary dream. Hence the left-liberal’s essential requirement of flooding the West with large numbers of inassimilable people from the Third World.”
https://x.com/PWestoff/status/1902263660677874111
The Far Left elite make sure they distance themselves from the stabby child rapists they let in so they do not see the effects of letting these low IQ peasants in en masse.
14 years of Conservative government drove a coach and horses through most of our British heritage.
Labour are building on this ‘foundation’ with the total inversion of all that is right and just.
The ‘plus’ is that those who aren’t part of their gravy train are being shaken from slumber.
I fear that I can’t even raise an eyebrow over this stuff anymore.
So let’s just get this straight…
…The first-tier Beak didn’t give this illegal drug-dealing scumbag a long enough sentence, the 2nd Beak approved deportation, but on appeal the 3rd Beak cited the short sentence as insufficient to justify deportation.
Waiting in the wings is a 4th Beak, ready to rule that the illegal scumbag’s deaf-mute one-legged second cousin twice-removed will be irreparably harmed if the scumbag is unable to scrounge off benefits in this country indefinitely.
Meanwhile a 5th Beak grants Indefinite Leave to Scrounge in perpetuity for ever more.
Next!
Too true! This shows that the real cause of the problem is the Kritocracy = Rule by Judges.
Some people might think that because neither voting nor peaceful protest are getting us anywhere, the only way forward is repeated acts of extreme violence.
However, I couldn’t possibly comment.