Court awards £17,000 to detained illegal immigrant

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Court awards £17,000 to detained illegal immigrant


Mr Mjemer had at least five different aliases


An illegal immigrant has been awarded £17,360 at the High Court for being wrongly imprisoned.
Joseph Mjemer, who arrived in the UK as a stowaway in 2003, was held by Home Office officials as they tried to establish his country of origin.
Judge Stephen Stewart QC concluded he should be freed and paid damages by the Home Office for loss of liberty.
Mr Mjemer, 28, was convicted of more than 20 offences in the three years following his arrival in Britain.
A UKBA spokesperson said: "We are very disappointed by the High Court ruling. Mr Mjemer has shown a consistent disregard for our laws and we are determined to pursue his deportation."
The High Court in London heard Mr Mjemer arrived in the UK on a ship in 2003 and claimed asylum.
Over the following three years, he was convicted of offences including property damage, dangerous driving and attempting to obtain property by deception.
He was jailed a number of times before being taken into "administrative custody" in 2007 because officials feared he would abscond if freed while officials tried to establish where he came from.

Legal aid

The judge ruled that the detention had been lawful for most of that period, but had been illegal between January and May 2011 because attempts to establish his nationality had faltered and there had been no realistic prospect of deportation.
Mr Mjemer, who brought the action after being granted legal aid, had also used at least five aliases and claimed to be British, Italian, Moroccan, Algerian and stateless.
Judge Stewart said he thought there was a low to moderate risk that he would be violent, a moderate risk that he would reoffend and a moderate to high risk that he would abscond.
Mr Mjemer's lawyers had argued he had suffered psychiatric harm as a result of being illegally detained.
But the judge said there was no evidence of "substantial deterioration" during the period of unlawful detention and rejected a claim for "aggravated damages".
Judge Stewart ruled that Mr Mjemer had been unlawfully held following a hearing in May, but announced the amount of damages following a further hearing on Thursday.
Following the May hearing, lawyers told the judge that Mr Mjemer would be freed, fitted with a monitoring tag, have to live at an address in West Drayton, west London, and be made to report regularly to a police station while Home Office investigations into his country of origin continued.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15596588

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this has left me fucking fuming, no bet hes getting benefits while he was committing all the crimes and now they pay him for being at her majestys pleasure. i swear this country is fucked

[blaggard]

we are a fucking Worldwide laughing stock

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right, im going to write to my local mp and ask them if they can pay an asylum seeking criminal, why cant they compensate EVERY single prisoner in our system, if they dont it would be restricting their human rights

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I wish i had enough to fuck off and live in france the more i hear the worse it gets

jag

[Bald Bouncer]

As bad as this may seem you have to look at the bigger picture rather than the emotive cases highlighted by the media, the reason the judgement will have been made is because they illegally detained someone and if they are allowed to get away with it then when or who will it stop at, the next case will be dismissed due to this legal president meaning they can lock up whoever they want whenever they want for as long as they want.

If you think well they won't abuse laws or loopholes of legislation if they can as common sense will prevail, the media will highlight it or they always do the right thing then you are so wrong.

Babar Ahmad is a British Citizen who has been detained in the UK for 7 years without trial fighting extradition to the USA under the controversial no-evidence-required Extradition Act 2003. In June 2011, the Houses of Parliament, Joint Committee on Human Rights urged the UK government to change the law so that Babar Ahmad’s perpetual threat of extradition is ended without further delay. Since all of the allegations against Babar Ahmad are said to have taken place in the UK, we call upon the British Government to put him on trial in the UK and support British Justice for British Citizens.
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/885

Any other country on the planet who did this would face world condemnation so think on when you proclaim to live in a democratic and free country