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An asylum seeker who was jailed as a “danger to the UK” after attacking four strangers is using a legal loophole to claim he is a reformed character and should not be deported.
Rebin Tofiq Hamaamin was drunk when he “meted out serious violence” by kicking and punching a man unconscious and then beating two others to the ground in a South Yorkshire town, an immigration judgment reveals. The 31-year-old Iraqi, who arrived in Britain on a small boat, then “spoke inappropriately” to a young woman in Barnsley before attacking her boyfriend as he went to her aid.
Although Hamaamin was due to be deported once released from his two-year prison sentence, a “material error of law” has meant his immigration case will have to be heard again.
He was previously denied asylum because it was ruled he was not at risk of persecution in Iraqi Kurdistan. His legal team successfully appealed against that deportation order. Lawyers for Shabana Mahmood, the Home Secretary, then proved an “error in law” meant the legal process had to start again.
An asylum seeker who was jailed as a “danger to the UK” after attacking four strangers is using a legal loophole to claim he is a reformed character and should not be deported.
Rebin Tofiq Hamaamin was drunk when he “meted out serious violence” by kicking and punching a man unconscious and then beating two others to the ground in a South Yorkshire town, an immigration judgment reveals. The 31-year-old Iraqi, who arrived in Britain on a small boat, then “spoke inappropriately” to a young woman in Barnsley before attacking her boyfriend as he went to her aid.
Although Hamaamin was due to be deported once released from his two-year prison sentence, a “material error of law” has meant his immigration case will have to be heard again.
He was previously denied asylum because it was ruled he was not at risk of persecution in Iraqi Kurdistan. His legal team successfully appealed against that deportation order. Lawyers for Shabana Mahmood, the Home Secretary, then proved an “error in law” meant the legal process had to start again.