The surreal case of an Albanian criminal who tried to dodge removal from the UK in part by claiming his son disliked foreign chicken nuggets—yes, really—reached its inevitable conclusion this week, when he won the right to stay in Britain.
Klevis Disha entered the country illegally under a false name, lied in his asylum claim, and was later jailed for two years after being caught with £250,000, known to be proceeds of crime.
An immigration tribunal previously said it was “unduly harsh” for the lawbreaker’s son—named in legal documents only as ‘C’—to be forced to move to Albania because of sensory issues. The case was then overturned on appeal, which ruled: “We can only see in the decision a single example of why C could not go to Albania: C will not eat the type of chicken nuggets available abroad.”
But a judge has now ruled again in Disha’s favour, citing the Strasbourg-based European Convention on Human Rights—adored by Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer—and that his son “struggles with certain textures of foods” and “has a limited diet.”
The story is yet another migration embarrassment for the PM, who backed the criminal migrant’s deportation—little good that did. It also gives the lie to his claim to be taking a ‘tough’ approach to border control. In reality, he—like the establishment governments that came before him—has next-to-no control.
There has unsurprisingly been a fairly fierce backlash, including from Conservative MP Neil O’Brien, who lamented that the migrant “lied to get in, then committed serious crime, but had been allowed to stay because of ‘human rights.’”
The case has also received attention abroad. When reports first emerged, Harald Vilimsky MEP said: “Criminals are mocking the population, and left-wing Europe is allowing it.” Austrian journalist Richard Schmitt later described the story as “proof” that “the European asylum system is at its end.”
Michael Curzon is a news writer for europeanconservative.com based in England’s Midlands. He is also Editor of Bournbrook Magazine, which he founded in 2019, and previously wrote for London’s Express Online. His Twitter handle is @MichaelCurzon_.
