A PEOPLE smuggler who trafficked nine adults and two children has argued that being deported would be too disruptive for his kids.
Miklovan Bazegurore’s lawyers tried to argue that being extradited to Belgium would breach his right to family life.
NCAMiklovan Bazegurore was locked up in 2018[/caption]
They claimed that his daughter, 10, who has special educational needs, would suffer if he was jailed in a different country.
The Kosovan national was locked up in 2018 after pleading guilty at Aylesbury Crown Court to conspiracy to facilitate illegal immigration.
He had links to a lorry that was caught by the National Crime Agency in Milton Keynes in 2016 having nine Albanian adults and two children
hidden next to a concrete mixer inside.
Since his release in 2023, he has been fighting extradition to Belgium, where he was handed a separate conviction for people smuggling and sentenced to five years.
His lawyer tried to argue that extraditing him would “be extremely disruptive for the children”, according to The Times.
But The Court of Appeal his offences as part of an “international smuggling ring” were so bad that extradition outweighed the impact on his kid.
Bazegurore is expected to be deported in the next few weeks.
It comes after a sick Palestinian gran won permission to come to Britain for medical treatment — despite fears it could undermine immigration controls.
The 67-year-old has a daughter, 50, living in Britain.
She argued successfully at an immigration tribunal last month they had a right to family life under a European Human Rights rule.
But in court documents seen by The Sun on Sunday, the Home Office warned it could also lead to a “proliferation” of similar applications.
The woman, who suffers from spinal stenosis, is financially supported by her daughter.
She lives in war-torn Gaza City and was deemed vulnerable by the tribunal as she suffers from PTSD and depression.
The treatment is expected to cost about £20,000 at a private hospital in Windsor, Berks, and the woman will return to Gaza after it is completed.
Upper Tribunal Judge Rebecca Owens allowed her appeal for a visitor visa.
‘Right to family life’ deportation loophole to FINALLY be closed in long-awaited crackdown
By Harry Cole and Jack Elsom
A LONG-awaited crackdown on dodgy “family life” loopholes in deportation cases will take a huge step forward.
Judges will be ordered to ignore bogus claims featuring laughable excuses which left-wing lawyers have been able to repeatedly exploit.
An Albanian criminal was recently allowed to stay under Article 8 of the European Convention of Human Rights partly because his son does not like chicken nuggets abroad.
A senior Government source promised: “The bonkers predicament that Britain finds herself in where a migrant can dodge deportation thanks to our own lawyers weaponising Article 8 because they don’t like chicken nuggets is over.
“The European Convention on Human Rights has taken the mickey for far too long and we will change the law to give primacy to our sovereign Parliament.”
Under Article 8 of the ECHR, people are able to claim their right to a family or private life, which is often weaponised by left-wing lawyers fighting for asylum seekers and foreign criminals to stay in the country.
The Government will instead propose a law change to give British courts primacy over ECHR rulings — but the move will require Commons legislation.
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