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A jailed Albanian drug lord will be deported after judges ruled his threat to public safety outweighed his human rights claim in a test case.
Neritan Kolludra, 40, the head of an Albanian organized crime group, was sentenced to 14 years and four months in prison in December 2019 for conspiracy to supply cocaine on a "wholesale basis", The Telegraph reports.
The government cabinet sought to deport him two years later, but Kolludra, who had been granted permanent residence in the UK and had a wife and three children in the country, claimed this would be a breach of his right to a family. according to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
However, in a decision that could set a precedent for hundreds of other detainees facing deportation, two judges in the lower and upper immigration courts ruled that the impact of deportation on his family life was "more than serious risk" of committing a criminal offense and the resulting risk to the public".
He will serve the rest of his sentence in an Albanian prison. It follows the introduction of new laws to ease the deportation of foreign criminals aimed at tackling the UK's prison overcrowding crisis.
Alex Chalk, the Justice Secretary, said: “Foreign criminals should serve their sentences overseas wherever possible not in British prisons at the expense of the taxpayer.
Our new laws allow us to deport foreign prisoners earlier, and the agreement signed with Albania significantly speeds up removals in that country."
Agreement on the transfer of dangerous prisoners
Chalk has struck a deal with Albania that will see 200 of its most dangerous prisoners serve sentences at a fraction of the cost if they remain in the UK. He is also seeking similar agreements with Poland and Romania.
The three countries account for almost a third of all foreign prisoners, which currently number 10,441, equivalent to 13 percent of the total of 89,000. They are costing the UK taxpayer £470 million a year to accommodate.
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