HEAD-TEACHER KILLER The killers and rapists who have claimed a right to a ‘family life’
MILAN-BORN Learco Chindamo, now 42, stabbed head-teacher Philip Lawrence to death outside his London school in 1995. He was 15 at the time. After Chindamo was released from jail, the Home Office could not deport him to Italy because of his human rights, as he was said to have ‘no ties’ there.
HATE CLERIC’S ACCOMPLICE
MOROCCAN-BORN CS, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is the daughter-in-law of Abu Hamza, the hook-handed cleric who preached at Finsbury Park Mosque, North London. She tried to smuggle a SIM card to Hamza in prison in 2016 but was caught and jailed. She successfully appealed against deportation, claiming a human right to family.
GANG RAPIST
JASON Efred Raje Francis, from Jamaica, was jailed for taking part in a gang-rape of a 14-yearold girl in a school playground in 2010. The Home Office tried to deport him in 2014 but failed because he had fathered two children since the rape, and had a right to family life.
TRIPLE-KILLER
KHAIRI SAADALLAH, from Libya, stabbed three people to death in Reading in 2020 and is serving a whole life term. Saadallah had been freed from prison just 16 days before the attack – having previously been convicted six times for assaults, possession of a knife and racially aggravated violence.
But he could not be deported on human rights grounds, with his lawyers claiming he faced the risk of torture in Libya.
SEX ATTACKER
SUDANESE national Jumaa Kater Saleh and four other men lured two girls aged 13 and 14 to a house in Kent, to perform sex acts on them. After being jailed, he could not be deported as he claimed he would be tortured if he was sent home.
...AND THE FARCE OF THE BOLIVIAN ACCUSED OF THEFT – AND HIS CAT
CAMILO Soria Avila, 36, came to the UK to study in 2002 but his visa expired. He was arrested on suspicion of stealing underwear from a store in London, and attracted the interest of the immigration service. Soria successfully claimed he was entitled to ‘family life’ in Britain, and his ownership of a cat, Maya, with his male partner showed their commitment to each other.