A paedophile Pakistani father jailed for child sex offences dodged deportation as it would have been ‘unduly harsh’ on his two toddlers.
The unnamed father-of-two was convicted of trying to get three ‘barely pubescent’ girls to engage in sex.
The foreign sex fiend – who was granted anonymity by an immigration court – was jailed for 18 months. He was also banned from living with his children and was placed on the sex offenders’ register.
However, in an extraordinary move, a lower tribunal judge during an appeal ruled the pervert should not be kicked out of Britain as it would be ‘unduly harsh for the children to be without their father’.
The Home Office has now appealed the ruling, sparking a legal tussle of war over whether or not the convicted sex offender should be allowed to stay in the UK.
The move has been backed by upper tribunal judge Judith Gleeson, reports the Telegraph, who criticised the initial decision as ‘contrary to the evidence, plainly wrong and rationally insupportable’.
Former Home Secretary Suella Braverman told MailOnline: ‘This horrible case is exactly why we need to leave ECHR and take back control of our borders from paedophiles and rapists who exploit it.
‘This egregious case is definitely not what post war treaty writers were worried about.’
A paedophile Pakistani father jailed for child sex offences dodged deportation as it would have been ‘unduly harsh’ on his two toddlers (image portrayed by a model)
He was initially granted leave to remain in the UK.
However, in March 2021, the pervert started targeting three ‘pre-pubescent’ girls, aged 12, 13 and 14 – who were in fact decoys being used by undercover cops.
The paedophile continued his sordid conversation for 18 months until he was arrested in August 2022.
It was claimed the man sought to abuse the three girls after being denied sex by his wife, who was being treated in hospital for Covid-19.
He was jailed in December of that year and ordered to serve 18 months behind bars.
While sentencing him, the judge told the man he had been ‘in denial’ about his offence and sexual interest in children and that there was ‘very little prospect’ of rehabilitation.
The judge also reportedly claimed jailing him would not have led to any significant impact on the man’s wife and children as he was not living with them ‘for obvious reasons’.
However, despite the damning criminal verdict, a lower immigration tribunal judge who heard the appeal claimed it would be unfair to separate the man from his children, whom he was being allowed to see daily under ‘supervised contact’.
The Home Office appealed against the initial ruling by the lower immigration tribunal judge (file image)
The deportation case is ongoing.
The tribunal hearing heard the Pakistani man first came to the UK in 2018, joining his wife and their children, aged three and four.
In outlining their decision, the judge told the court they ‘placed weight’ on the wife’s claims she had been partly responsible for his offending because she had not been able to have sex with him while she was battling Covid-19 in hospital.
‘In light of the above matters considered cumulatively, I am satisfied that it would be unduly harsh for the children to be without their father,’ the judge reportedly ruled.
But upper tribunal judge Ms Gleeson has since overturned the initial decision in favour of the Home Office’s appeal against the judgement.
She branded the first-tier official’s findings as ‘plainly wrong’ and ‘rationally unsupportable’.
In her decision, the first judge had failed to take heed of the sentencing remarks by the criminal court judge, Ms Gleeson said.
She added the emphasis on the wife’s ‘failure’ to have sex with her husband ‘does not explain’ why the man ‘felt the need to engage with barely pubescent girl children online’ and that the ‘absence of marital relations’ was ‘no excuse’ for his crimes.
‘His characterisation of these offences as a mere blip in the appellant’s life is unsound and inadequately reasoned,’ Ms Gleeson added.
A Home Office spokesman said: ‘Foreign nationals who commit heinous crimes should be in no doubt that we will do everything to make sure they are not free on Britain’s streets, including removal from the UK at the earliest possible opportunity.
‘Since the election, we’ve removed 2,580 foreign criminals, a 23 per cent increase on the same period 12 months prior.’
