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    ‘Gay’ Nigerian criminal can stay in UK despite using wife to claim asylum

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    1. Sensitive_Echo5058 on

      “A Nigerian jailed for violence has won a legal battle against deportation after claiming to be gay despite having been married to a woman and fathering a child by another.

      The man, who arrived in Britain in 1983, made a series of initial asylum claims unrelated to his sexuality.

      Originally, he claimed he would face persecution because of his political opinions. But when this was rejected, he sought leave to remain on the basis that he had married a woman living in the UK.”

      This has become one of the go-to lines often based on falsehoods. It’s almost like a tick box exercise now, where the person goes down the list until they come at an answer acceptable to the home office.

    3. DoneItDuncan on

      I mean being bisexual is a thing, and likely to have the same stigma if he’s had known relations with a man, which it appears he had:

      >In evidence, he cited communications from his family in Nigeria over his relationship with a man from 2010 to 2013.

      >He told the court they had told him to end it, saying he was “bringing the family into ridicule and shame”. They said they would inform the security services of his sexuality.

    4. AdditionalThinking on

      Thousands of people have married into straight relationships then divorced when one person comes to terms with a different sexuality; Especially when they come from excessively religious communities that stifle self-discovery and pressure people into ‘traditional’ families (Like, idk, Nigeria?).

      Are we really going to pretend this doesn’t happen?

    5. marianorajoy on

      It never gets mentioned, but the headline should be:

      > “Funded by legal aid, the solicitors and KCs of a Nigerian criminal manage to successfully argue in court against other equally costly KCs appointed by the Government, and after a complex and lengthy case that started with a deportation order issued on 11 April 2006, **nearly 20 years ago**, in a case that probably cost the taxpayer in total hundreds of thousands of pounds, that he must not be deported due to his supposed sexuality.”. 

      We should call out the legal system that permits this. Not so much that person.

      The appeal decision can be found here 
      https://tribunalsdecisions.service.gov.uk/utiac/ui-2024-003100

    6. i-readit2 on

      A Nigerian jailed for violence should be on the first boat back to Nigeria. Gay or not it’s not his sexuality that caused him to be violent.

    7. Rhinofishdog on

      1. Force all asylum claims to have to be approved by a house of commons vote.
      2. Force all asylee’s into work camps until the claim is approved or they agree to leave.

      Problem solved! But it’s too mean so we can’t do it. I guess we are just going to have to keep taking them in until the public is sick enough to elect Hitler 2.0.

      And I don’t mean Trump/Farage. They are largely ineffectual as well. I mean whatever comes after they fail. It’s not going to be pretty…

    8. iamezekiel1_14 on

      Surely there needs to be some sort of test here? On a basic level – I don’t like the criminal conviction but surely with regards to his sexuality this needs a night out in Soho and a “train” being run on him?

    10. Astriania on

      As well as the specifics of this case, I don’t agree that being gay should be enough to get you asylum in the UK anyway. Some fairly significant minority of men are genuinely gay; we can’t be expected to give an automatic right to settlement to every gay Nigerian and Ugandan and Afghan and whatever other countries can claim some link to the UK and have repressive positions on gay rights.

      It’s not that long ago that the UK’s position was repressive by modern standards. People should fix their own countries. This is not fleeing a war or natural disaster, this is fleeing the political and economic environment of your home country, and that shouldn’t be enough to get asylum and bypass normal immigration criteria.

    11. honkballs on

      Being kind to the cruel is being cruel to the kind.

      The British people are being taken advantage of, and the Government is enabling it.