Spurious asylum cases are clogging the system — and lawyers are cashing in - "What do a Danish robber, an Albanian drug dealer and an illegal Pakistani migrant convicted of sexual assault all have in common? Their battles to avoid deportation are among the 74,969 cases clogging up the immigration and asylum appeal courts, the majority of which involve failed asylum seekers appealing against their rejected claims. And so far, they are succeeding. Their cases are examples of why a record 41,987 asylum cases are stuck in the appeals system, which helps to explain why the government is facing such a major problem moving the 38,079 migrants out of 218 hotels across Britain... The judge dismissed the earlier ruling and sent it back to the queue of cases at the first-tier tribunal to be reheard. He said the first judge had failed to “adequately explain” why a failure to speak Danish and mental health issues posed “such significant problems for the appellant in an advanced western democracy such as Denmark”. The judge pointed out that the EU country had a health and social security system “as least as effective as that in the UK” and cited statistics that English was spoken by 86 per cent of the adult population in Denmark. Instead of the seniority of the judge in the upper tribunal meaning an end to his case, it returned the Dane’s case to the bottom of the pile at the first-tier tribunal. All the while, Jama remained in Britain, four years on from his conviction, and he will remain so until his whole deportation appeal is reheard at the first-tier tribunal and inevitably appealed against by the losing party all the way to the upper tribunal court again. A 53-year-old Pakistani man who has lived in Britain illegally for 11 yearsh as also avoided deportation so far by claiming he was gay, despite having been convicted of sexually assaulting a woman... The Solicitors Regulation Authority said that over the past five years, 15 solicitors have been charged and prosecuted before a disciplinary tribunal over allegations of misconduct in immigration cases. Eight were struck off, one suspended indefinitely and another suspended for 12 months. One was also fined £60,000. Two years ago, the regulator shut three firms that were at the centre of allegations prompted by a newspaper sting operation. Officials removed documents and took possession of all money from Rashid & Rashid in south London, Lincoln Lawrence in west London and Kingswright in Birmingham. In addition regulators suspended the practising certificates of three solicitors. The move came after the Daily Mail alleged that lawyers were charging thousands of pounds to submit false asylum and human rights claims for illegal immigrants. According to the newspaper’s investigation, staff at solicitors’ firms readily agreed to help an undercover reporter posing as an economic migrant obtain refugee status."
Councils warning over migrant 'crisis' as 38,079 asylum seekers in hotels (aka Asylum Crisis Wrecking Our Communities) - "The devastating impact of Britain’s asylum crisis on communities across the country has been revealed by desperate local councils. Schools and housing markets have been overwhelmed by would-be refugees sent across the country. It comes after the number of asylum seekers in expensive hotel accommodation rose to 38,079, despite Labour’s general election promise to “end asylum hotels”. The figure is up from 35,651 last September and 29,585 in June, before Labour came to power. More than 28,000 people have reached the UK via small boats since Labour won the July 4 election. Since the start of the year 5,025 people have arrived this way – 24% more than had reached these shores by the same time last year. Councils pleaded with the Home Office to work with them and complained that large numbers of people were being moved into areas without local authorities being warned. They highlighted the damage caused to local economies by the use of hotels - but also warned that businesses employed by the Government to find homes for asylum seekers were snapping up rental properties at prices local residents could not afford... Home Office spending on asylum accommodation and support has shot up from £739million in 2019-20 to £4.7billion in 2023-4."
Judge blocked paedophile’s deportation to Pakistan because he 'could be persecuted as an alcoholic' - "A Pakistani national labelled a “danger to the community” for committing crimes including sexually abusing a girl under 13 and assaulting emergency workers avoided deportation because of his alcoholism, it has emerged. The man, who has been granted anonymity, arrived in the UK in 2010. He was arrested in 2020 for assaulting emergency care workers while “heavily intoxicated". He was arrested again in December 2022 for sexually abusing a girl under 13. In a First-tier Tribunal hearing in June 2024, a judge blocked his deportation on the ground that it would breach Article 3 of the European Convention of Human Rights... “Sufficient evidence to show the lower standard, that the appellant would face inhuman or degrading treatment on return to Pakistan as a result of a highly likely criminal prosecution and imprisonment for his uncontrollable alcohol consumption. “As such, returning to Pakistan would breach the U.K.’s obligations under Article 3 of the ECHR,” the judge told the tribunal said. The Home Office has since appealed the decision, arguing the judge made errors in assuming he would be thrown behind bars for drinking in Pakistan... An Upper Tribunal ruled: “Given that there are likely to be Muslims in Pakistan who drink and possess alcohol, the assertion that all will be arrested, prosecuted and indeed receive imprisonment is not evidenced... Last week, an Albanian criminal was allowed to remain in the UK after a judge ruled that long-distance Zoom calls would be ‘too harsh’ on his stepson.Dritan Mazreku, 29, took on a ‘paternal role’ for his son, 15, when he entered a relationship with the boys mother 10 years ago, a tribunal heard. He was later jailed and faced deportation, but a judge ruled he could remain in the country because it would be ‘unduly harsh’ on his stepson if he was removed, the Telegraph reports. The judge said that “modern means” of communication were “no substitute” for physical presence and visiting Albania regularly would be ‘unmanageable’."
Dr. Maalouf on X - "British man attacked for entering a no-go zone in London. A horde of Islamists surrounded him and questioned why he was in ‘their’ neighborhood. They threatened him and began chanting ‘Allahu Akbar’ as they expelled him."
Most UK Muslims define themselves by faith first - "Muslims in Britain regularly have their “Britishness” questioned, leading the majority to identify as Muslim first and British second, a report has found. Most British Muslims identify with their religion before their nationality, not because their faith demands “loyalty to Islam first”, but partly because many are made to feel they are “not welcome” to identify as primarily British, the study by the Institute for the Impact of Faith in Life (IIFL) concluded... Most would prefer to live in the UK than in a Muslim-majority country... Muslims aged over 65 were more likely to identify as primarily British, with 64 per cent identifying as British or English first... It found that the three issues that matter most to Muslim voters were healthcare, the economy, and education, above political parties’ stance on the conflict in Israel and Gaza."
Clearly, they need not just anti "Islamophobia" laws but blasphemy laws to feel welcome. Non halal food must also be banned and homosexuality made illegal
Most UK Muslims define themselves by faith first : r/unitedkingdom - "American Muslims do behave like that when there is a significant concentration of population, for example Dearborn. The main difference with the UK is that the share of the population is much lower, and almost all Muslims in America grow up in extremely mixed communities, whereas Muslims in Britain are much more likely to grow up within their sectarian community. For example in Tower Hamlets, a borough of 200k people, 70% of school age children are Muslim, and the schools are more segregated than that. I've got absolutely no problem with people living like that in the UK, but it is a problem when we're talking about 1 in 10 people in the country being Muslim within the next decade, or 1 in 5 people in London. At that point you really need those communities to integrate and share the values of the rest of the society."
Auron MacIntyre on X - "“You have to give every drug dealing rapist who sneaks into the country 14 years of tax-payer funded appeals before deporting them!”
Nah we’ll just send them home now and make our streets safe
“That’s fascism!”"
Jonatan Pallesen on X - "Urfan Sarif moved from Pakistan to the UK in 2001. He married a Polish woman. Being a psychopathic Pakistani, he committed a number of abusive husband crimes, such as holding her captive, assaulting her, strangling her with a belt, and even attempting to set her on fire. Following this, not only was he not deported, but he was given custody of their child. The life of this child was one of constant terror and pain, as described in the screenshot. Until she finally died from all her beatings. Imagine doing these things to an innocent child. The judge described it as "a campaign of torture" in which "the degree of cruelty is almost inconceivable". This is an extreme tragedy and failure of the British society. And as is often the case, it was exceedingly easy to avoid. Simply deport criminal foreigners. (And failing that, at least don't give them custody.)"
Jess Gill on X - "I’m fed up with being harassed in London. And to be blunt, it’s always by non-British men. The number of times my friend and I were harassed while having a picnic in a relatively nice area of London was insane.
- on my way there, a man in a car kept on beeping at me to get my attention and waved at me while I was walking.
- before I got there, my friend said she had already been harassed by a man while she was waiting.
- a man sat next to us (despite there being a lot of space around us) for ten minutes, kept on staring at us, tried to talk to us and only left when he finally got the message.
- a group of Deliveroo cyclists leered at us and made weird comments about us to each other as we walked past.
It’s genuinely so uncomfortable to be a woman in London. More women need to speak out against this, regardless if it’s politically incorrect to say."
There need to be arrests. Of people like her for xenophobic and racist hate speech
I work at a migrant hotel. Many of them will never work a day in their lives - "At the hotel where I work, the physical building is owned by a group of investors. The security is contracted to the lowest bidder for this kind of work. Day-to-day operations are run by a large housing management firm. You have to comb their websites for any information about their activities in the area. The asylum-industrial complex is largely run by for-profit contractors, each leveraging their slice of the cake for further enrichment. I don’t see an energised response to our recent change of government. There seems to be no plan. While I see a significantly expedited approach to resolving asylum claims in real time, these people are then ejected from the system into the care of local authorities. That burden on local services does not show up in national statistics, but it certainly does on school places and provisions for homeless people in any medium-sized British city. My local authority contacts see no new money or initiatives to cope with the increased demand, and our only multiple-occupancy homeless shelter is entirely full with asylum seekers granted the right to remain. Among our share of residents, it’s an uncomfortable fact that a large number of people will never work a day in their lives, but I am optimistic that, in time, their children will. The space I work in is extremely secretive. Part of that comes from the housing companies making phenomenal profits from commodifying people... People are not always who they say they are. Most arrivals are undocumented, having disposed of their papers along the way. The Home Office assigns them a name and date of birth based on whatever they declare. People do this to reinvent themselves – they may have tried and failed previously under their original name, or they may be wanted overseas. There is no way to verify it. They are given a new identity and that becomes who they are in the UK. Some have already been granted the right to remain in other European countries and then left to try their luck here, where they have stronger family networks. I have met families who have been on the road for years... I’ve been handed falsified medical documents – complete with strange instructions for how I might help validate them to support an asylum claim. I’ve seen residents buy bicycles on Facebook Marketplace – only to have them stolen the same day. Some arrive on motorcycles or in cars, which are then hidden around the corner and eventually towed for being untaxed and uninsured. I once tried to explain car insurance to a resident but he just couldn’t grasp the concept. If a resident brings me a delicious meal that is unsolicited, I know a request for some kind of favour is likely to follow... The real kicker for anyone in the asylum system is what happens at the end. Our government might grudgingly accept your asylum claim. Because everything they do, they do grudgingly: every letter and every email reminds you of the inconvenience you have caused. You don’t get a letter congratulating you. You get a letter saying you have 28 days to vacate the accommodation. If you don’t, that means they will come and remove you. You will no longer receive the £49.18 a week you were getting if you are self-catering, or £8.86 if you are provided three meals a day by yet another for-profit contractor. Regardless of whether you are in a hotel or a dispersal property, you will still be evicted. You have five years’ leave to remain. You are now homeless. You need to go to a Jobcentre and sign on, and you need to declare yourself (and your family) homeless at the council offices. You are no longer in the asylum system. You are an ordinary British citizen, except this time, our government doesn’t have the same duty of care to you. You can still enjoy universal free healthcare, but this time it’s now six weeks for an appointment instead of the one or two days you got used to. I have seen whole families banging on the hotel door to see the doctor days after departure. But we can’t see you; you are no longer our patients, security won’t let you in – now, you are civilians. You are not asylum seekers anymore; you are ordinary British citizens. I think you finally realise: after the right to remain comes the hard part, the one that nobody had really told you about."
Meme - "They deleted this post after people pointed out we never had to live with armed police until mass migration."
Manchester City Centre P...: "Today we welcome the return of Manchester Christmas Markets. You will likely see a heightened police presence who will be acting to keep y..."
Thomas the Tank engine's new friend is 'homeless' Kenyan train developed after advice from United Nations - "Thomas the Tank Engine is to introduce a "homeless" Kenyan train to teach children about refugees. A new series of the show will feature the Island of Sodor’s first black female character, developed on the advice of the United Nations. In the updated version, Nia, the Kenyan engine, will join other recently introduced international characters including Ashima from India and Shane from Australia. Gender-balanced storylines were developed with the assistance of Tolulope Lewis-Tamoka, the UN Women’s Africa Programme Adviser."
Inevitable West on X - "72% of Somalian migrants living in the UK are on social housing. This is where your taxes go. This is why you went to work today. This should "radicalise" you beyond belief."
Scott Lewis on X - "Your taxes aren’t rebuilding Britain. They aren’t fixing roads, funding schools, or securing the border. No, your hard earned money is being siphoned off to sustain a system that puts everyone else before you. 72% of Somalian migrants in social housing while British families struggle to afford rent? While veterans sleep on the streets? While you work longer hours just to scrape by? This isn’t “compassion.” This isn’t “fairness.” This is an insult. You’re being forced to bankroll a system that prioritises those who have contributed nothing over those who have given everything. And the worst part? If you dare to question it, they call you “radical.” No. The real radicalism is forcing an entire nation to fund its own destruction while silencing those who object. Britain belongs to its people, not to a system that exploits them. Enough."
Tech company sorry after posting London job ad which says 'only immigrants from India will be considered' - "A UK-based tech company has apologised after placing a job advert where it said only Indian immigrants would be considered. Avantao Technologies was hiring for a DevOps engineer at the company's headquarters in Ilford, England. But the advert - which was live on a popular recruitment site - made it clear applicants born in the UK were not welcome... They claimed they could not take the ad down because the person who posted it was on holiday. A spokesperson for the firm insisted it followed all UK rules and the online advert was a mistake."
GB News on X - "'You were all white British until 50 years ago... and now you are discriminating against the indigenous British people in favour of people who have very thin historical ties to Britain at all' - @realJeremyCarl Author of a book on anti-White discrimination discusses the UK"
Thread by @sam_bidwell on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "The Home Office has barred Renaud Camus, a controversial French philosopher, from entering the UK. They claim that his presence is "not conducive to the public good". But is that a consistent standard? Let's look at some of the people that they've allowed to come to the UK:
Syed Muzaffar Shah Qadri, who is banned from preaching in Pakistan, was allowed to travel to the UK in 2016. Qadri has celebrated the murder of politicians in Pakistan, arguing that it is legitimate to kill people who oppose Pakistan's oppressive blasphemy laws. Qadri was a key influence on Tanveer Ahmed, a Bradford taxi driver who was convicted of the murder of another Muslim man, who he deemed insufficiently pious. During his visit, Qadri delivered sermons at several UK mosques, including venues in Leicester, Woking, and Bolton. Tahir ul-Qadri is an Islamic scholar of Pakistani origin. He has voiced support for Pakistan's repressive blasphemy laws. He has also worked to censor "offensive" caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. As recently as 2024, ul-Qadri has spoken at major conferences in the UK. Ismail Menk is a Zimbabwean cleric. Menk has described homosexuals as "worse than animals" and has advocated for strict gender segregation. He has spoken at a number of British universities. In January 2024, he appeared before a packed crowd at London's ExCel Centre.
Later this year, three Islamic speakers will tour the UK. One of the speakers, Abu Bakr Zoud, has repeatedly praised martyrdom and has labelled Western democracies "godless societies". In 2022, he said that "every rainbow flag should come with a warning about anal cancer." The second speaker, Ali Hammuda, has described Hamas as "resistance fighters", and has denied official reports of a massacre of Israeli civilians on October 7th 2023. In July 2023, Hammuda hosted a 21-part series of lectures at the South Wales Islamic Centre. ImageThe third speaker, Jamal Abdinasir, is also a mainstay of the Muslim speaking circuit. In 2023, he voiced his support for the "mujahideen", an Arabic term for warriors engaged in jihad. Given what we know about these men, will the Home Office allow these events to go ahead?
The list goes on and on. Assim al-Hakeem is a Saudi cleric. He has described Jews as "devilish", has defended child marriage, and advocates for Wahhabist ideas about criminal justice and gender. He spoke at the Green Lane Masjid in 2017, and at a London conference in 2018. Yasir Qadhi is a Pakistani-American scholar. He has produced academic papers which provide justification for jihad. He has argued that Muslims should refuse to do business with people who don't conform to Islamic rules on sex and gender. He spoke at the East London Mosque in 2023.
The list goes on and on. Why have these figures been allowed to come to the UK, while Camus has been blocked? Do we really believe that Camus' ideas about mass migration are more dangerous than Islamist ideas, which call for the destruction of the West? You might disagree with Camus. You might find his views uncomfortable. But hearing difficult views is the price that we pay to live in a society with free speech. Why should he be banned from Britain, particularly when so many Islamists have been allowed to preach in the UK?
Unfortunately, this is not an isolated incident. In 2009, Dutch politician Geert Wilders was banned from the UK, after producing a film which criticised the Prophet Muhammad and the Qur'an. His views were deemed "too dangerous" for the British public. Wilders' Freedom Party won 24% of the vote in the most recent Dutch election. The party now forms part of a coalition government - though Wilders does not sit as a minister. I wonder if the Home Office would bar Wilders from Britain, if he attempted to visit today?
The Camus case raises a number of questions. Why is the Home Office so afraid of right-wing thinkers? Why does it consider their beliefs too dangerous for the British public? Why do our free speech protections extend to Islamists, but not anti-immigration voices?"
Censorship is only a Threat to Democracy if it threatens the left wing agenda
Sunday school teacher caught at Heathrow with Islamic State video was granted asylum in UK - "An Islamic Sunday school teacher who was caught with an Islamic State (IS) video was granted asylum in the UK before allegedly giving children “lessons in jihad”, a court heard. Dzhamilya Timaeva, 20, is facing jail after she was convicted of possessing the video, calling for arson attacks. She was arrested at Heathrow Airport as she was about to board a flight to Turkey in October 2022, the Old Bailey heard. The video, called Incite the Believers, encouraged viewers, if they did not have a gun or a knife, to carry out arson attacks on buildings, forests and agricultural land. When she was questioned by police, Timaeva was shown the film and said: “It’s the first time I watched the video.” But when she was rearrested on March 2 2023, officers found she had made a voice note on her phone, bragging about how she had lied to police. In December, Timaeva denied but was convicted of possession of a document for terrorist purposes in relation to Incite the Believers... Timaeva and her family arrived in Britain in 2013 as refugees from Chechnya after being denied asylum in Switzerland and Luxembourg, the court was previously told. They lived in Cardiff for six years until they were granted asylum in 2019, and moved to Windsor, Berkshire, where they still live. Timaeva said earlier that Islam was central to her life and told jurors she had memorised the Koran at the age of 12. The court heard that she kept videos on her phone of fighters amongst rubble, with voiceovers encouraging a holy war in the name of Islam. She said the clips related only to freedom fighters in Chechnya wanting to free themselves from Russian control. She had 5,370 videos on her phone, many of which contained extremist content calling for violence against non-believers and Jewish people. Of those films, 2,800 had been accessed on Telegram, the encrypted social media account... She was the head teacher at the Windsor Muslim Association and was due to begin teaching classes at the Tawheed Islamic Education Centre, a Sunday school in Maidenhead... Timaeva devised lesson plans and a curriculum for the children attending the Tawheed school. She printed 70 picture books to distribute to children called Little Muwahideen. The book instructs young readers that they have a “duty” of waging war for Islam. Jurors were shown pages from the book, which refers to “overthrowing incomplete religions like democracy and capitalism”. Another page reads: “We have prepared for the disbelievers a humiliating torment.”"
Suella Braverman Says The UK Could Become 'The First Islamist Nation With Nuclear Weapons' - "Suella Braverman has suggested that the UK could become “the first Islamist nation with nuclear weapons”. The former home secretary said Britain could “fall into the hands of Muslim fundamentalism” and become like Iran... “Is it an impossibility that 20 years from now it will be the UK, not China or Russia, that will emerge as the greatest strategic threat to the USA? “Born out of a broken relationship and weak leadership. What happens if the UK falls into the hands of Muslim fundamentalism, our legal system gets substituted for Sharia Law and our nuclear capabilities vest in a regime not too dissimilar to that of Iran today? “Regardless of whether one thinks that is a realistic outcome, which I do not, should we not have the courage to ask these questions?”... Trump told reporters on Saturday that he thought Starmer “is a very good person and I think he’s done a very good job thus far”, adding: “I like him a lot.”... Braverman claimed the UK-US relationship now “lies in tatters”. She said: “Under Keir Starmer, the UK is now more likely than ever to worship at the altar of punitive net zero policies, bend the knee at the cross of a distorted notion of human rights and submit to the will of supranational institutions rather than sticking up for the UK’s national security and long-term allies.”"
Trump loves authoritarians, so no wonder he likes Starmer
Alex Armstrong on X - "Jaw-dropping footage revealed by @markwhiteTV today showing what GB News believes to be Sudanese migrants showing off their 4* hotels. This is a mockery. There are homeless British citizens sleeping rough on the street and economic migrants fleeing France are a priority for our government. Keir Starmer promised he would end the migrant hotels, yet another failure. These videos are nothing but an advertisement for others to come to the UK, of which we believe, there are thousands more queueing up. Via @GBNEWS"
Asylum seekers loitering outside school is 'cultural' issue, say police - "Police have told migrants to adhere to “cultural expectations” following reports they were loitering outside a primary school. Northamptonshire Police said it would “deliver some work” around “appropriate behaviours” following complaints of men “hanging around” near the school. The force pledged to work with a hotel housing asylum seekers and step up patrols after the reports of “suspicious activity” in the village of Deanshanger. Migrants have been staying in a hotel outside the village for around three years and are among thousands living in temporary accommodation across the country. However, in recent months there has been increasing concern over young men loitering near Deanshanger Primary School, including claims of filming."
Jihadist wants to be deported – but Home Office still can’t get rid of him - "A convicted jihadist who has renounced his British citizenship cannot be deported to Pakistan because it would breach his human rights, a document suggests. Irfan Khalid was jailed for planning an attack in Birmingham similar to London’s 7/7 bombings. However, a Parole Board document shows the Home Office has been unable to deport the terrorist, despite him wanting to leave. It suggests that deporting him would breach his “human rights”. “Mr Khalid is a foreign national of Pakistan,” the document states. “He has renounced his British citizenship. He is subject to a deportation order, which was not enforceable due to human rights concerns.” The Parole Board said Khalid had even “signed a letter of disclaimer facilitating him being voluntarily returned to Pakistan”. Khalid was part of a terror gang who planned to turn the UK’s second largest city into a “little war zone” by setting off up to eight bombs in rucksacks. The jihadist, who was 27 at the time, had travelled to Pakistan where he learnt how to make homemade explosives and trained alongside al-Qaeda, who had given the plot their “blessing”. He was jailed for 18 years in 2013 after a counter-terrorism investigation foiled the scheme. Last year, the Parole Board deemed him too dangerous to be released"
Migrant avoids deportation because he lost his phone - "An illegal Iraqi migrant who fled his home country over his part in an alleged exam fraud has avoided deportation after claiming a people smuggler threw away his ID and phone. The man fled Iraq after being threatened with arrest for the alleged fraud when he was caught on CCTV delivering test papers to an address a day before students were due to sit for the qualification. He claimed that an “agent” who facilitated his passage to the UK had not only thrown away his ID documents but also made him get rid of his phone, on which he had his family’s numbers. The Iraqi, who was granted anonymity, told an immigration tribunal that he could not remember the telephone numbers for his family, which meant he could not get their help to replace his lost ID card. Iraqis cannot safely return to their home country without such ID documents because of the risks of arrest and interrogation, as well as preventing them travelling cross-country through checkpoints. His appeal against his deportation by the Home Office was upheld by an upper immigration tribunal, despite “inconsistencies” in his account, because of errors in the first judge’s analysis of his case. His appeal will now have to be fully reheard by a new tribunal... There are a record 41,987 outstanding immigration appeals, largely on human rights grounds, which threaten to hamper Labour’s efforts to fast-track removal of illegal migrants. The backlog has risen by nearly a quarter since September and is up nearly 500 per cent from just 7,173 at the start of 2022. The man was studying at university in Iraq when he got a part-time job as a courier delivering packages for two businessmen to clients who “appeared to be wealthy and drove cars with tinted windows”, the tribunal was told. After his fourth delivery, he got a call from one of the businessmen who told him that he had been spotted dropping off the package and that the security forces were seeking to arrest him. When he asked why he was wanted for simply delivering a package, he was told it had contained papers for the following day’s Year 12 examinations. Fearing that he would be framed for fraud, the Iraqi student sought shelter with a human rights group, Ashti, before fleeing to the UK. During the initial hearing of his claim for refugee protection, the court identified inconsistencies in his appeal against deportation, including different accounts of how long he had spent with the human rights group. At his hearing, the Iraqi claimed that his agent had thrown away his ID card during the journey to the UK, while in his statement to immigration authorities he claimed that he had left it in Iraq. He also said he had not been able to contact his family because his phone had been damaged, while in his statement he claimed that his “agent” had thrown it away. His claim for protection in the UK was rejected by the lower-tier tribunal because the inconsistencies undermined his credibility. The judge also dismissed his claim that his deportation would breach his rights to a family life under Article eight of the European Convention on Human Rights. The upper tribunal, however, said there were errors in the judge’s analysis, particularly over the time the Iraqi had spent with the human rights group, which called into question his decision to reject the claim. David Kelly, the upper tribunal judge, also said the analysis of the inconsistencies overly influenced the first tier court’s decision about whether the Iraqi would face persecution in his home country if he was deported. He said the decision to reject the Iraqi’s appeal against deportation should therefore be reheard."
