A 30-year-old asylum seeker with 18 convictions including firearms, theft and drugs offenses could face deportation but his lawyers argue that sending him back to Somalia is against his human rights.
Identified only as MS, the asylum seeker faces the threat of deportation after two previous judgments that allowed him to stay in the UK were overturned by the Court of Appeal.
However, his lawyers said he can’t be sent back to Somalia because he faces the threat of violence there, according to The Times.
His lawyers said that deporting him would be against Article 3 of the Human Rights Act which says “no one shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.”
According to officials, he could still be allowed to stay in Britain despite MS presenting a serious threat to public safety.
MS’s case will be returned to the immigration tribunal in the new installment of a 5-year legal battle.
He has been convicted 18 times for more than 20 offenses committed from January 2006 to September 2015.
His crimes include two offenses against property, three against a person, five thefts, one fraud, three relating to police, three relating to public order, one firearm and one drug offense. There were also seven miscellaneous offenses.
But sending him to Somalia means he could be the target of attacks, so UK courts have to consider whether deporting him would be in breach of his human rights not to be “subjected to inhuman or degrading treatment.”
One internet user commented: “How many victims are there in his one man crime spree?? We need their human rights to be respected by real justice being exercised.”
Another wrote: “Lawyers sometimes show than they are absolutely clueless, the convicted criminal MUST be deported he is a danger to others in the UK.”
A third said: “And it’s my human rights to feel safe and secure and know people like this are not around.”
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