Fury as crook jailed for drugs can’t be deported to Jamaica – as there would be no one to look after his gangster kids
A CROOK jailed for fraud and drugs cannot be deported back to Jamaica — as it would leave no one to look after his gangster children, a judge ruled.
Dad-of-four Swaye Binns, 45 won a legal battle to remain after an immigration tribunal was told three of them were “in and out of prison”.
Appeal judge Therese Kamara ruled that the trio, who were said to have “strong gang connections”, would be adversely affected if he were to be kicked out.
Her decision that exceptional circumstances apply means that the Government has lost its final appeal to reverse an earlier decision not to deport Binns.
The Home Office had wanted rid of Binns — who entered the UK as a visitor in 2000 — since he was jailed for possessing heroin in 2003.
He vanished for seven years in 2006 after deportation papers were signed, before he was arrested on suspicion of an immigration offence.
In 2014, he launched a bogus firm, based in Croydon, South London, claiming to be authorised by the Government to advise Commonwealth migrants on nationality and citizenship matters.
More than 260 people each paid £2,000 for “help”, for some their life savings, Home Office investigators discovered. Binns got four years’ jail for fraud in 2018.
Judge Elizabeth Smaller branded the cheat “arrogant, grandiose, self-interested, blinkered and greedy”.
She said: “I am satisfied that you are dishonest through and through. This is serious offending . . . with a high impact on vulnerable victims.”
Tory MP Nigel Mills called the immigration appeal court ruling on Binns a “farce’ and a “disgrace”.
He added: “These people are laughing at the law. What an earth is going on in this country if this is allowed to happen?”