Deported thief brags online after sneaking back to UK
Hunt is on for serial offender who has twice found his way back from Albania
A PROLIFIC Albanian burglar twice deported for his crimes has boasted of his luxury lifestyle after sneaking back into Britain as an illegal immigrant.
Doran Puka, 26, posted pictures of him drinking cocktails and driving a Porsche on Instagram.
Border Force and police are hunting him for his flagrant breach of immigration controls, which have emerged at a time when the Government has struggled to remove foreign nationals in a series of deportation rows.
Puka was originally jailed for nine months in 2016 and deported the following year for attempting to break into a property.
But within a year, he dodged border controls to return to the UK, where he carried out a string of burglaries in suburban London.
He was jailed for three-and -a-half years then deported in March last year.
During his time in prison in the UK, he used an illegal mobile phone to post Instagram pictures of himself with the leader of an organised crime group jailed for cocaine supply and money laundering.
After returning to Albania for a few months, he travelled through Germany, Belgium and Netherlands before beating border checks to enter Britain again in December, according to his Instagram account.
Pictures posted last month show him in the commuter suburb of Richmond, Surrey, on Christmas Eve, wearing a Covid mask and standing next to a £70,000 Porsche.
There are also videos of Christmas Day celebrations with a turkey, Jack Daniels, liqueurs and cocktails, as well as film of a training session involving an Albanian amateur boxer.
A Home Office spokesman said the information had been passed to Border Force and police with a view to tracking him down and deporting him again.
The disclosure follows a series of cases in which attempts to fly foreign criminals back to their home countries have been disrupted or blocked by legal challenges over human rights and even claims of modern slavery.
A report by the National Audit Office last year said the Home Office had no idea how many illegal immigrants were in the UK, noting its last official estimate of 430,000 was 15 years old. A former head of immigration enforcement, David Wood, has put it at closer to one million.
The NAO also said the Home Office was deporting fewer illegal immigrants.
At the same time the number of attempts by migrants to secretly enter the UK and detected by the Border Force rose by 12 per cent to 46,900 in the year to October 2019.
The Home Office spokesman said: “Foreign criminals who violate our laws and abuse our hospitality have no place in the UK.”
Priti Patel, the Home Secretary, will shortly unveil a Sovereign Borders Bill aimed at increasing deportations and tightening Britain’s “broken” asylum system by restricting the grounds on which it can be claimed, and shortening the time for appeals.