Abdilahi Essa Darwish was imprisoned for violence and possessing a bladed item, but with his sentence served, he now won’t be deported from the UK.
The 41-year-old criminal won his immigration appeal with the claim that his clan and/or tribe faces persecution in Somalia. An asylum tribunal ruled that he may come to harm if returned home.
The threat of ‘persecution’ in Somalia looks like another example of dubious ‘human rights’ trumping public safety. The argument, however, convinced an upper tribunal of the Immigration and Asylum Chamber to respect Darwish’s original claim to asylum in Britain rather than acknowledging his subsequent crimes as part of a Home Office deportation case against him. He has now been granted protection in the UK, away from the threat of marauding rival majority clans.
