Jeanfromfillmore
05-30-2011, 04:58 PM
Booted out at last: The child-molesting migrant who claimed it was his human right to stay in the UK
An illegal immigrant who abducted and molested two young girls and then claimed his human rights would be breached if he was deported from the UK has finally been sent home after a two-year legal battle.
Zulfar Hussain, 48, was due to be deported after being released from prison half-way through his sentence.
He had been convicted of child-sex offences after plying two vulnerable girls with drugs and alcohol before having sex with them.
But Pakistani-born Hussain, who lived with his British wife and three children in Blackburn, launched a legal bid to stay in the UK. Using Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights – which says ‘everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence’ – he argued he should be allowed to return to his wife and children on his release from prison.
But the Home Office fought Hussain’s legal application and kept him in a secure immigration removal centre.
After a two-year battle and a £100,000 bill for the British taxpayer he was finally sent back to Pakistan on Saturday.
Immigration Minister Damian Green said: ‘We will not accept foreign nationals like Zulfar Hussain breaking our laws. Those who commit serious offences should be removed at the earliest possible opportunity.
‘We will do all we can to protect the public from those who abuse their right to be here.’
Hussain came to the UK illegally in the late 1980s and married his wife in February 1990 before going on to have three children.
He was granted leave to remain in September 1994, before being given indefinite leave a year later.
In 2005 Hussain and an accomplice, Qaiser Naveed, 34, a fellow Pakistani national, groomed two 15-year-old girls, who were in local authority care, for sex over a period of months in his adopted home town of Blackburn.
The teenagers were plied with alcohol and ecstasy pills, before the men had sex with them.
Hussain and Naveed were arrested when social workers raised the alarm.
They were both jailed for five years and eight months in 2007 and were both ordered to be deported back to Pakistan following their release.
But while Naveed accepted his fate, Hussain appealed.
After his lawyers said Hussain had expressed remorse, been well-behaved in prison and had no previous convictions in Pakistan or Britain, an immigration judge backed his case.
But the UK Borders Agency won an appeal in January and detained Hussain. After several further failed appeals, during which he sacked his legal team, UKBA officers fast-tracked his deportation.
Emergency travel documents were issued and Hussain was sent back to Islamabad on Saturday night.
A UKBA spokesman said it was not known if his family – who stood by him during his sentence and visited him in prison – had joined him.
He added: ‘Our priority is to protect the public and we strongly believe foreign law breakers should be removed from the UK at the earliest possible opportunity.
‘The UK Border Agency will automatically seek to deport any foreign national criminal who has been jailed for a serious offence.’
Police who investigated him hailed the decision as ‘a victory for common sense’. Detective Sergeant Mark Whelan of Lancashire Police said: ‘The impact on the victims in this case will be reduced following this successful appeal by the UK Borders Agency.
‘Knowing he’s back in Pakistan will mean they are able to feel safe and draw a line under this whole episode.’
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1392349/Paedophile-illegal-immigrant-finally-thrown-Britain-claiming-deportation-breach-HIS-human-rights.html#ixzz1Nt49qkwC
An illegal immigrant who abducted and molested two young girls and then claimed his human rights would be breached if he was deported from the UK has finally been sent home after a two-year legal battle.
Zulfar Hussain, 48, was due to be deported after being released from prison half-way through his sentence.
He had been convicted of child-sex offences after plying two vulnerable girls with drugs and alcohol before having sex with them.
But Pakistani-born Hussain, who lived with his British wife and three children in Blackburn, launched a legal bid to stay in the UK. Using Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights – which says ‘everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence’ – he argued he should be allowed to return to his wife and children on his release from prison.
But the Home Office fought Hussain’s legal application and kept him in a secure immigration removal centre.
After a two-year battle and a £100,000 bill for the British taxpayer he was finally sent back to Pakistan on Saturday.
Immigration Minister Damian Green said: ‘We will not accept foreign nationals like Zulfar Hussain breaking our laws. Those who commit serious offences should be removed at the earliest possible opportunity.
‘We will do all we can to protect the public from those who abuse their right to be here.’
Hussain came to the UK illegally in the late 1980s and married his wife in February 1990 before going on to have three children.
He was granted leave to remain in September 1994, before being given indefinite leave a year later.
In 2005 Hussain and an accomplice, Qaiser Naveed, 34, a fellow Pakistani national, groomed two 15-year-old girls, who were in local authority care, for sex over a period of months in his adopted home town of Blackburn.
The teenagers were plied with alcohol and ecstasy pills, before the men had sex with them.
Hussain and Naveed were arrested when social workers raised the alarm.
They were both jailed for five years and eight months in 2007 and were both ordered to be deported back to Pakistan following their release.
But while Naveed accepted his fate, Hussain appealed.
After his lawyers said Hussain had expressed remorse, been well-behaved in prison and had no previous convictions in Pakistan or Britain, an immigration judge backed his case.
But the UK Borders Agency won an appeal in January and detained Hussain. After several further failed appeals, during which he sacked his legal team, UKBA officers fast-tracked his deportation.
Emergency travel documents were issued and Hussain was sent back to Islamabad on Saturday night.
A UKBA spokesman said it was not known if his family – who stood by him during his sentence and visited him in prison – had joined him.
He added: ‘Our priority is to protect the public and we strongly believe foreign law breakers should be removed from the UK at the earliest possible opportunity.
‘The UK Border Agency will automatically seek to deport any foreign national criminal who has been jailed for a serious offence.’
Police who investigated him hailed the decision as ‘a victory for common sense’. Detective Sergeant Mark Whelan of Lancashire Police said: ‘The impact on the victims in this case will be reduced following this successful appeal by the UK Borders Agency.
‘Knowing he’s back in Pakistan will mean they are able to feel safe and draw a line under this whole episode.’
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1392349/Paedophile-illegal-immigrant-finally-thrown-Britain-claiming-deportation-breach-HIS-human-rights.html#ixzz1Nt49qkwC