Human rights laws allowed 600 foreign criminals to dodge deportation and remain in Britain last year

1EmailRecord numbers of convicted villains claim their right to a home life would be breached if they were sent home while others say they would be killed

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Abu Qatada, once described as al-Qaeda’s leader in Europe, boards an aircraft at RAF Northolt in west London last July to be deported to Jordan Photo: PA

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The foreign paedophile we cannot deport - and his £350,000 bill for the taxpayer

By Jake Wallis Simons

7:10AM GMT 17 Nov 2013

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One dreary day in November 2004, UK border officials opened the back of a lorry and discovered a 16-year-old Sudanese boy, Jumaa Kater Saleh.

He had travelled illegally for more than 3,000 miles across Europe, in an attempt to escape his war-ravaged homeland and seek asylum in Britain.

As innocuous and vulnerable as he may have seemed, this boy would go on to cause headache after headache for the authorities and for the taxpayer, not to mention trauma to the victims of his crimes.

In 2008, he was convicted of serious sex offences against children.

Last week, however, with the help of the country’s top human rights lawyers and relying on legal aid, he successfully sued the Government for “unreasonable administrative delay”, which had led to him being detained unnecessarily for eight months.

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