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A bogus asylum seeker who raped a schoolgirl can’t be stripped of his British citizenship attributable to bungling officers.
Gjin Gjergji, now 52, claimed to be fleeing war-torn Kosovo when he arrived within the UK in 2000 – and has lived on hand-outs ever since.
However after his rape conviction it emerged that he was in actuality one in every of a whole bunch of Albanians who had falsely claimed to be Kosovan to win refugee standing.
The Residence Workplace tried to revoke his British passport so he could possibly be kicked out after his six-year jail time period.
Nonetheless, officers had suspected as early as 2005 that he’d been granted refugee standing underneath a false id – but that they had didn’t take motion.
Now an immigration tribunal has concluded that it will be ‘unfair’ to strip him of British citizenship when proof accessible nearly 20 years in the past was ‘disregarded’.
Gjin Gjergji, now 52, (pictured) claimed to be fleeing war-torn Kosovo when he arrived within the UK in 2000
Whereas the choice is prone to horrify his sufferer and her household, Audi-driving Gjergji was unapologetic when confronted by the Day by day Mail.
He boasted: ‘I am all proper, I’ve obtained no worries right here. I got here to the UK as a result of I needed a greater life, and I’ve discovered it. I prefer it right here.’
Gjergji mentioned he believed he has a proper to remain within the UK as a result of he has a household right here and his native Albania is just too harmful.
‘There are many dangerous folks there,’ he added, and not using a trace of irony.
Regardless of that, he plans to go to his aged mom and different kin in Albania as soon as his new UK passport arrives.
Alp Mehmet, chairman of Migration Watch UK, condemned how Gjergji had managed to take advantage of loopholes and go on to commit such a ‘horrendous’ crime.
He mentioned: ‘Why was this individual ever granted citizenship? The Residence Workplace owes us an evidence.
‘That this vile particular person can not now be despatched again to Albania provides insult to damage. Why in heaven’s title not, can be the query from most individuals.’
Gjergji initially utilized for asylum in 1999, however was despatched again to Germany after a fingerprint verify revealed he had made a declare there underneath a special title.
He tried once more underneath what’s believed to be his actual title the next 12 months, claiming to be from Kosovo, which had damaged away from the previous Yugoslavia resulting in assaults on ethnic Albanians from Serb nationalists.
This time he was granted refugee standing and was awarded a British passport in 2011, settling in east London.
Gjergji advised the Day by day Mail he believed he has a proper to remain within the UK as a result of he has a household right here and his native Albania is just too harmful
On January 7, 2015, Gjergji pulled up alongside a 15-year-old lady who was strolling alone and persuaded her to get into his automotive.
He then drove her to a quiet road earlier than ordering her into the again, flattening her trousers and raping her.
At his 2017 trial, Gjergji was convicted of rape after the jury deliberated for lower than an hour.
In 2019, paperwork had been uncovered that proved he had been born in Albania, and the Residence Workplace knowledgeable him he was being stripped of his British citizenship on the grounds that he had obtained it ‘by the use of fraud’.
Nonetheless Gjergji appealed, along with his attorneys arguing proof about his true nationality was accessible when he was granted British citizenship and it will due to this fact be ‘unfair’ to make use of it to throw him out over a decade later.
Gjergji’s spouse had admitted he was Albanian when she utilized to hitch him in 2005, whereas the false id underneath which he had first utilized for asylum was filed as being Albanian.
Permitting his enchantment, Higher Tribunal Choose Therese Kamara dominated that proof of Gjergji’s true nationality had been accessible to the Residence Workplace ‘practically 20 years earlier’ however had been ‘both disregarded or mishandled’.
‘We settle for that it’s unfair for the respondent [the Home Office] to now search to depend upon this data as a foundation for depriving the appellant [Gjergji] of his citizenship,’ she added.
Requested about his rape conviction, Gjergji overtly tried accountable the sufferer, saying as soon as once more that he’d believed she was a prostitute.
‘It is all performed with now anyway,’ he insisted, saying he had served his jail sentence. ‘What extra would you like?’
A Residence Workplace investigation revealed that as much as 300 Albanians had falsely claimed to be from Kosovo in an effort to win asylum in Britain.
A spokesman for the division mentioned: ‘We don’t routinely touch upon particular person circumstances.’
