This is an example why the UK has become a @@ithole
Posted: 28 Aug 2025 20:09
I had to copy this from the telegraph in sections as quick as i could because it was a paid article, hope it is all in the right order , talk about being lenient , how many times do you need to commit crime there to still be allowed to stay !!!!
Ghanaian drug smuggler deported three times – but now court says he can stay
Charles Hymas
Home Affairs Editor
Related Topics
Ghana, European Court of Human Rights, Home Office, Migration, Crime
28 August 2025 5:45pm BST
A deported Ghanaian drug smuggler who sneaked back into the UK with a fake passport has won his human rights appeal to remain in Britain.
Oduola Toye was deported three times after being judged by the Home Office to be a threat to public safety because of his four-year jail sentence for class A drug smuggling and convictions for deception and fraud.
He returned to the UK each time to lodge appeals against his removal after fathering three children in Britain and claiming that deportation would breach his rights to a family life.
Toye, who has used multiple identities over the past 40 years, has now been granted leave to remain in the UK after the immigration tribunal ruled that his deportation would breach his article eight rights to a family life under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
That same year he was sentenced to four years in jail for smuggling the drugs before being deported to Nigeria in July 1995. He re-entered the UK in breach of the deportation order in 1996 before making an application for indefinite leave to remain under the name Oduola Toye. This was granted in 2001.
However, in April 2003 he was arrested by police on suspicion of multiple counts of fraud. When officers checked his fingerprints, they discovered they were linked to various identities. Criminal proceedings were dropped in favour of deportation.
Oduola Toye’s deportation would breach his rights to a family life under the ECHR, tribunal rules
Court documents show that Toye was convicted of deception in 1987 under the name Sunday Ogundare. He was fined and deported to Nigeria. He later successfully applied for a visitor’s visa under the name of Ogundare Badmus, but was arrested on arrival in May 1993 after being found with illegal drugs.
Toye was released in error and voluntarily left the UK in June 2003, only to return a month later to lodge a human rights application under article eight. This was refused, and he was deported again to Nigeria in October 2003.
The court was told that Toye said he re-entered the UK via Ireland in May 2005, using a passport in the name of Adesoji Babatunde. Police only caught up with him in June 2011, when he was served illegal entry papers
He was to be deported under article eight. This was refused, and he was deported again to Nigeria in October 2003.
Toye lodged a series of appeals against deportation in the subsequent years but, according to the court, there was a delay of up to 11 years between his application to revoke the order to remove him and a decision from the Home Office.
The Home Office blamed the delay on Toye’s own actions and, in particular, his use of multiple names and identities, but Judge Sarah Pinder said it was “inexcusable” and “egregious”.
She noted that Toye enjoyed a family life with his former partner X, the mother of their three adult children.
Judge Pinder said: “There is no evidence before me, however, to demonstrate that he continued to use multiple or false identities after he applied for revocation of the deportation order in 2011.
“On this basis, I am satisfied he has reformed his life since seeking revocation in 2011. He has continued to raise a family and provided much physical and emotional support to his children. The period of non-offending is plainly lengthy, and I conclude that the risk of him committing further offences is, at most, low.”
She concluded that deportation was a disproportionate breach of his human rights to a family life.
Senior Labour figures, including the former home secretaries Lord Blunkett and Jack Straw, are urging him to suspend the convention or decouple it from UK human rights laws to enable more illegal migrants and foreign criminals to be deported.
This week, Nigel Farage, the Reform UK leader, confirmed that he would take the UK out of the ECHR as part of his plan for the deportation of 600,000 illegal migrants over the five years of a Reform government.
Next month Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, will spell out Labour’s plans to curb the right of failed asylum seekers and foreign criminals to use articles three or eight of the ECHR to fight deportation. Article three protects against persecution, torture and ill-treatment.
Ghanaian drug smuggler deported three times – but now court says he can stay
Charles Hymas
Home Affairs Editor
Related Topics
Ghana, European Court of Human Rights, Home Office, Migration, Crime
28 August 2025 5:45pm BST
A deported Ghanaian drug smuggler who sneaked back into the UK with a fake passport has won his human rights appeal to remain in Britain.
Oduola Toye was deported three times after being judged by the Home Office to be a threat to public safety because of his four-year jail sentence for class A drug smuggling and convictions for deception and fraud.
He returned to the UK each time to lodge appeals against his removal after fathering three children in Britain and claiming that deportation would breach his rights to a family life.
Toye, who has used multiple identities over the past 40 years, has now been granted leave to remain in the UK after the immigration tribunal ruled that his deportation would breach his article eight rights to a family life under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
That same year he was sentenced to four years in jail for smuggling the drugs before being deported to Nigeria in July 1995. He re-entered the UK in breach of the deportation order in 1996 before making an application for indefinite leave to remain under the name Oduola Toye. This was granted in 2001.
However, in April 2003 he was arrested by police on suspicion of multiple counts of fraud. When officers checked his fingerprints, they discovered they were linked to various identities. Criminal proceedings were dropped in favour of deportation.
Oduola Toye’s deportation would breach his rights to a family life under the ECHR, tribunal rules
Court documents show that Toye was convicted of deception in 1987 under the name Sunday Ogundare. He was fined and deported to Nigeria. He later successfully applied for a visitor’s visa under the name of Ogundare Badmus, but was arrested on arrival in May 1993 after being found with illegal drugs.
Toye was released in error and voluntarily left the UK in June 2003, only to return a month later to lodge a human rights application under article eight. This was refused, and he was deported again to Nigeria in October 2003.
The court was told that Toye said he re-entered the UK via Ireland in May 2005, using a passport in the name of Adesoji Babatunde. Police only caught up with him in June 2011, when he was served illegal entry papers
He was to be deported under article eight. This was refused, and he was deported again to Nigeria in October 2003.
Toye lodged a series of appeals against deportation in the subsequent years but, according to the court, there was a delay of up to 11 years between his application to revoke the order to remove him and a decision from the Home Office.
The Home Office blamed the delay on Toye’s own actions and, in particular, his use of multiple names and identities, but Judge Sarah Pinder said it was “inexcusable” and “egregious”.
She noted that Toye enjoyed a family life with his former partner X, the mother of their three adult children.
Judge Pinder said: “There is no evidence before me, however, to demonstrate that he continued to use multiple or false identities after he applied for revocation of the deportation order in 2011.
“On this basis, I am satisfied he has reformed his life since seeking revocation in 2011. He has continued to raise a family and provided much physical and emotional support to his children. The period of non-offending is plainly lengthy, and I conclude that the risk of him committing further offences is, at most, low.”
She concluded that deportation was a disproportionate breach of his human rights to a family life.
Senior Labour figures, including the former home secretaries Lord Blunkett and Jack Straw, are urging him to suspend the convention or decouple it from UK human rights laws to enable more illegal migrants and foreign criminals to be deported.
This week, Nigel Farage, the Reform UK leader, confirmed that he would take the UK out of the ECHR as part of his plan for the deportation of 600,000 illegal migrants over the five years of a Reform government.
Next month Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, will spell out Labour’s plans to curb the right of failed asylum seekers and foreign criminals to use articles three or eight of the ECHR to fight deportation. Article three protects against persecution, torture and ill-treatment.