Deported thug got new ID to sneak into UK

A SLOVAKIAN thug jailed and then deported for attacking and robbing a 12-year-old girl sneaked back into the UK after changing his name.

Patrik Gunar, 23, who dragged the screaming girl to the ground before stealing her iPhone, was freed early from his three-year sentence.

He was deported in December, after serving just nine months. But once back in Slovakia, he changed his name to Patrik Krajnak, obtained a new passport and – despite a life ban on him returning – re-entered Britain on July 3.

Gunar, pictured, was arrested in Derby on Thursday following a tip-off from the Slovak authorities and was jailed for 18 weeks for breaching his deportation order. He will also now serve the remainder of his original sentence before being deported again.

District Judge Jonathan Taaffe told Southern Derbyshire Magistrates Court: ‘This is a worrying case for a number of reasons.’

He told Gunar: ‘You were sentenced to three years for an extremely worrying robbery of a 12-year-old child.

‘Right-thinking members of the public will wonder why you were released from that sentence under the early-release scheme.’

Gunar attacked the schoolgirl in Derby in February last year as she went to the shops for her mother. CCTV of the incident showed how he struggled with her for almost two minutes.

He told police his victim was ‘just a little girl’ and ‘easy prey’. She was left terrified and told officers she screamed so much she thought she would lose her voice.

Gunar, a former Derby College student, admitted robbery and was jailed in March last year at Derby Crown Court. It is understood he was released under the Early Removal Scheme for prisoners being deported.

Lynn Bickley, prosecuting, told the court that the Slovakian authorities informed their British counterparts that Gunar had changed his name to Krajnak. Checks were made and it was discovered that he had entered the UK through Luton airport using his new passport.

On Thursday, police went to his partner’s home and found him in a bedroom, Miss Bickley said.

Jas Soodi, for Gunar, told the court he had returned to help his partner and their two children with paperwork to join him in Slovakia.