UK Border Force officials let ‘Most Wanted’ Albanian killer BACK into the UK and banned crook runs a car wash and lives nearby
Violent thug Selami Cokaj rakes in £40,000 from his business after sneaking way back into Britain
AN Albanian murderer kicked out of Britain sneaked back in under the noses of the bungling Border Force to run a car wash firm.
Selami Cokaj, 43, once on Interpol’s Most Wanted list, was deported in 2009 and banned from returning.
In fact he was a violent Albanian criminal who had been jailed in 1994 for a knife murder.
He was sentenced to 15 years, later increased to 20 for a further armed robbery conviction.
But after three years he escaped.
Within months of coming to the UK he was living in Mansfield, Notts, had set up a car wash firm and met his future wife.
His past caught up with him in 2006 and after a three-year extradition process he was deported.
But under Albanian law too much time had elapsed since his original sentence and he was freed in 2012.
Figures show twice as many Albanian stowaways have been caught at our ports than any other nationality in the past eight years.
The Home Office said: “This Government puts the safety of our country first.
"That’s why we’ve taken action like introducing ‘deport first, appeal later’ to stop this kind of thing happening.”