Mick Hartley

A Times report:

An Albanian criminal avoided deportation from Britain because his ten-year-old son did not like the taste of chicken nuggets served in other countries, court documents show.

An immigration tribunal ruled that it would be “unduly harsh” for Klevis Disha, 39, to be sent back to Albania partly because his son “will not eat the type of chicken nuggets that are available abroad”.

Disha entered the UK illegally in 2001, when he was 15, falsely stating that he was born in the former Yugoslavia. His asylum claim was rejected but he was granted citizenship in 2007.

He met his partner, an Albanian naturalised British citizen, in 2006 and the couple had two children.

In September 2017 Disha was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment after being found in possession of more than £250,000 in cash, known to be the proceeds of crime.

In 2019, when she was home secretary, Priti Patel ordered that he be deported and stripped of his UK citizenship because it had been “acquired through deception”.

But then…chicken nuggets to the rescue. He was saved!

Added. From the Telegraph:

A Pakistani father who was jailed for child sex offences escaped deportation because it would be “unduly harsh” on his children.

The unnamed father of two toddlers, who was granted anonymity by an immigration court, had been banned from living with his children since he was convicted of trying to get three “barely pubescent” girls to engage in sex and jailed for 18 months.

However, a lower tribunal judge ruled that he should not be deported back to Pakistan as it would be “unduly harsh for the children to be without their father”.

The Home Office appealed the decision and was backed by an upper tribunal judge Judith Gleeson who set aside the ruling, criticising it as “contrary to the evidence, plainly wrong and rationally insupportable”. 

The case is ongoing.