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A convicted Albanian criminal who was deported from the UK three times after trying to enter illegally has been allowed to live in Britain after secretly returning for the fourth time.
An immigration judge ruled that Erind Koka, 33, should not be deported because he had been imprisoned for less than a year for assisting in the cultivation of cannabis.
Despite an appeal by Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, who said in a statement that his presence in the UK was "not conducive to the public good", Koka's right to remain was upheld because he had served less than a year in prison.
The case, revealed in court documents, is the latest example exposed by The Telegraph of a convicted foreigner winning the right to remain in the UK or to have deportation stopped.
There are a whopping 41,987 outstanding immigration appeals, mainly on human rights grounds, which threaten to hamper Labor's efforts to speed up the removal of illegal immigrants.
The remaining gap has increased by almost 1/4 since September and has increased almost 500 percent from 7,173 at the beginning of 2022.
Koka initially attempted to enter the UK by arriving on a passenger plane with false documents. He was refused entry and deported to Finland.
Just seven months later, he was found hiding in a trailer by Border Agency staff in Dunkirk, when he had again attempted to enter the UK illegally without documentation.
He left for France the next day, but five years later, in September 2018, he was discovered in a camper van in Coquelles by French authorities and driven away from the border crossing, which was UK territory under an agreement with France.
According to his testimony, Koka eventually managed to enter the United Kingdom illegally, hidden in a lorry, on October 3, 2019. Within a year, he had been convicted of producing cannabis, a class B controlled drug, and was imprisoned for eight months.
On February 4, 2022, the Home Office decided to deport him on the basis that his presence in the UK was "not conducive" to the public good.
Although Suella Braverman, the Home Secretary at the time, understood that Koka's prison sentence was below the threshold for deportation, she said his attitude was causing serious harm.
Koka responded by initially seeking refugee status, but withdrew that attempt and instead claimed the right to remain on the basis that deportation would violate his right to a family life under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights. He had a daughter and a partner in the UK, the court was told. /Adapted from Pamphlet/
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