Algerian asylum seeker with history of violence will be deported after losing 15-year fight to stay in Britain
AN asylum seeker with a history of violence has lost a 15-year fight to stay in Britain.
The man has committed 13 crimes since illegally entering the UK in 1988.
He was thrown out in 1991 when an asylum bid failed but managed to sneak back in on a false passport before marrying a British woman in 2000.
The Algerian was jailed in 2000, 2002 — for sexual assault and attacking a cop — and 2003. One year later, he got 8½ years’ prison for GBH.
He was served with his first deportation notice and spent the next 15 years using taxpayers’ cash to fight it. The dad of five, of West London, known as OH, claimed he had a human right to a family life.
In 2015, he was locked up for another 12 months for smashing his teenage daughter’s head into a bed frame.
It came shortly after he won an appeal against deportation.
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Ruling he should be thrown out, Appeal Court judge Lord Justice Irwin said OH had a “long criminal record, including very serious offending”.
The Home Office said: “Foreign nationals who abuse our hospitality by committing crimes should be in no doubt of our determination to deport them.
“We have removed nearly 50,000 foreign national offenders since 2010.”
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