Asylum seeker convicted of 17 offences can’t be deported because NO country will accept him
The man claimed he had been unlawfully detained and wanted compensation from the Home Office
AN ASYLUM seeker convicted of 17 offences cannot be deported as no country will accept him.
The man, born in an Algerian refugee camp, is free despite a history of mental problems and “posing a high risk of harm to the public”.
He has convictions for attempted robbery, criminal damage, drug crime and shoplifting.
He claimed he was “stateless” and various African countries refused to provide him with travel documents — leaving Britain nowhere to send him.
Details of the case emerged yesterday in a ruling by Judge Martin McKenna following a High Court trial in London.
The man, 31, who was not named, came to Britain in 2003. He developed a mental disorder two years later and was treated in hospital “both on a voluntary and involuntary basis”.
He was later held for ten months under immigration legislation before being released in late 2015. He had claimed unlawful detention.
But Judge McKenna ruled in favour of the Home Office and dismissed his compensation bid.