Sex attacker claiming he’s Syrian to stay in UK

AN IMMIGRANT who sexually assaulted a woman within two weeks of arriving in Britain is blocking attempts to deport him by claiming he is a Syrian refugee.

Abdulrahman Abunasir submitted a claim for asylum while serving an 1 -month prison sentence for the sex attack.

But when immigration officials questioned him, they found he could not even answer ‘simple’ questions about Syria.

A language analysis test and found ‘there was a very high degree of certainty that he was from Egypt’. But officials have been unable to deport him as they cannot prove he is Egyptian.

After serving half his sentence for the 2013 sexual assault, Abunasir was moved to a secure

‘Little respect for the law’

immigration centre. Probation officers said he should not be freed because there is a high risk he may attack again.

In nearly two years in the immigration centre, he has cost taxpayers around £ 0,000. He took his case to the High Court where he tried to sue the Government for being ‘unlawfully held’.

However, he had also allegedly claimed to be Palestinian when detained in France years earlier.

Judges threw out his claim for compensation in July but warned he cannot be held indefinitely.

During the High Court hearing, Judge Clive Heaton said: ‘He has shown little respect for the law here by his criminal offending, unlawful entry to the UK, failure to present himself as an asylum seeker, and obstruction of his lawful removal.’

The Home Office said it was determined to deport foreign nationals who commit crimes in the UK.