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to deport Koka was first made in February 2022, he raised an international protection claim as a refugee – but this was withdrawn a year later, in February 2023.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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Brilliant!
Seconded…..
This sort of demonic insanity is like a bottomless pit: individuals and societies that fall into it are in a permanent state of fall, never reaching the bottom.
To sustain the basic lie (i.e. that a man can change gender) further and further elaborate lies must be invented, propagated and enforced. At the end the whole thing will implode, inevitably, as ultimately there is order in the universe and that order ensures that reality always wins.
By the way, I don’t think Madame Macron looks like a man; no, she looks like a desperately sad woman who has had far too much plastic surgery.
But yeah, there is something weird about the relationship.
XY is not XX and testosterone is not estrogen or progesterone.
Along with the usual two overall options for bodily features, that’s all there is to it.
Am somehow reminded of the reputed excesses of the Weimar Republic this time last century.
Because she/he/it is a man ?
Or maybe she/he/it is a monkey ?
Difficult to tell.
FBI supposedly has the proof that Big Mike aka Michelle OClowna is a man.
Looking forward to Tronald and Kash releasing that info.
Because of Germany’s ludicrous self-identity gender laws ( which apply from the age of 14yrs old ), all the loopholes are opened and all the weirdos, predatory perverts and con artists are protected because they suddenly have ‘rights’ to behave this way. This case just demonstrates what is possible when you fixate and prioritise DEI above all else because those who run society are epic woketards;
”A trans-identified male in Dortmund, Germany, is facing scrutiny after winning over €250,000 over the course of 240 separate discrimination lawsuits. Many have accused the man, who has been unemployed for 12 years, of using Germany’s strict protections for those who self-identify as transgender to enrich himself.
Apart from three internships and one short-term job, the trans-identified man has been unemployed since 2012 and receives public welfare.
In a recent interview with Westphalen Blatt, Steffen claimed to have applied for over 1,577 jobs over the last eight years, but reported he has struggled to find a position. But critics have accused Steffen of running something akin to a racket, labelling him an “AGG-hopper.” The German slang term refers to individuals who do not apply for a job with the intention of actually taking it up, but rather to receive compensation for alleged violations of anti-discrimination laws.
Steffen has been known to apply for jobs he does not actually qualify for throughout the North Rhine-Westphalia region. For example, in one instance he applied for a job which was a one-hour drive from his home despite the fact he does not have a driver’s license and cannot drive.
But the moment Steffen receives a rejection from a job he applies for, he files a lawsuit citing a violation of the German Equal Treatment Act (AGG). Steffen has also filed lawsuits for jobs he never applied for, but found to be “discriminatory” in advance by focusing on minor errors in the job advertisements.
For example, in one case, an advertisement omitted to specify that people of “diverse” genders can apply, and only stated that “male and female” applicants were welcome. Steffen sued over this omission and won.”
https://reduxx.info/germany-trans-identified-male-on-welfare-sues-over-240-employers-for-discrimination-after-being-continuously-rejected-from-jobs-he-is-not-qualified-for/
A number of different adjectives may be appropriate for Candace Owens – I can understand why some of her positions might be found hard to take – but I can’t see how she could be described as “moronic” in the commonly used sense of the word.
Regarding Macron’s wife, I have no idea about her, but I am not sure how the author can determine that she’s a woman just because Mr Macron was interested in her. The fact that she is reported to have children seems more telling – probably quite hard to fake having children.
Whether or not it is hard depends who you are and/or who you know, I suppose…
Stranger things have happened.
Candace Owens has zero credibility as she’s a Jew-hating, vacuous talking head who defends known perverts and simps for sex-trafficking, rapist, misogynist, scam-artist pimps. Just another female traitor to her own sex, then. There’s a fair amount of them about;
https://x.com/TheMilkBarTV/status/1889146872432058748
I have no idea if it’s male or female. But it definitely is ugly.
Looks like my assessment of you the other day was spot on.
Missed it. I’m just gutted.
The fact you’ve repeatedly proven yourself to be the misogynists’ loyal little handmaiden? One of many who lurk on here? There you go, consider yourself up to speed.
I guess, forever being the anomaly around these parts, I’m never going to be a nasty little keyboard warrior, sat at home, calling an elderly woman “ugly”. But that’s just me. Never was much cop at being a ‘nodding dog’ in an echo chamber.
Top article. ‘First Ladyboy’–love it!
I recall Richard Dawkins’ idea of memes – a self-propagating unit of cultural evolution having a resemblance to the gene (the unit of genetics). As an example the phrase “Play it again, Sam” is a well known and recognised phrase – even though the phrase was never spoken in the film ‘Casablanca’.
There were plenty of nay-sayers to the meme idea… but if memes attract approval they can spread without necessarily being true. Perhaps weird allegations spread as memes because they are too delicious not to pass on, whether they are true or not?
You could make an argument that many of the Social Justice ideas are just memes that play into the worldview of those that wish the memes were true.
What a crazy conspiracy theory that Brigitte is a man. No more likely than a worldwide pandemic caused by a lab leak to lock us all up and get us all jabbed.
Depressing to see the intolerant abuse terms of the mob in the DS – for the first time that I recall. If Candace Owens is a moron she is at least as articulate as Steven Tucker, and a good deal more successful in reaching an audience. I suspect his dislike of her may be more to do with her attitude to the activities of the Israeli state than the landscape of the Marcronic nether regions….
Dr Victor Acharian clearly doesn’t own a scalpel as the application of said article to the excess appendages would have gone some way to solve the problem. Oh I suppose he might have needed anaesthetic too.
Name calling and othering Candace Owens? shame on you. People should listen to the podcast and decide for themselves, it is a well researched entertaining piece.
This was hilarious