Romance Scam: Nigerian Fraudster Escapes Deportation From UK Because NHS Is Treating His Family
LAGOS MARCH 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian conman who duped women out of almost £200,000 in “romance frauds” has avoided deportation after judges ruled his wife and children could not be properly cared for by his home country’s health system.
Emmanuel Jack, 35, was jailed for three years in 2014 after he tricked six women he met on dating websites into paying him £186,000.
His lonely hearts ruse would see him targeting vulnerable women while posing as an architect and convincing them to send him thousands of pounds.
Eight years after he was jailed, in 2022, the Home Office decided to deport Mr Jack and send him back to Nigeria, the country he left with his parents when he was 10.
However, he launched a legal challenge claiming that it breached his rights to a family life under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
An Immigration and Asylum tribunal in London has now backed his appeal against removal on the basis it would be “unduly harsh” on his British wife and children, who suffer from complicated and serious medical issues and rely on his care.
The asylum tribunal ruled it would also be “unlikely” Nigeria had the “bespoke” medical care his family benefited from under the NHS.
The case, disclosed in court papers, is the latest example exposed by The Telegraph where migrants or convicted foreign criminals have won the right to remain in the UK or halt their deportations, often claiming breach of their human rights under the ECHR.
There are a record 41,987 outstanding immigration appeals, largely on human rights grounds, which threaten to hamper Labour’s efforts to fast-track removal of illegal migrants.
The backlog has risen by nearly a quarter since September and is up nearly 500 per cent from just 7,173 at the start of 2022.
Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, is reviewing whether to place restrictions on foreign criminals and illegal migrants to prevent them exploiting Article 8 of the ECHR to avoid deportation.
Jack, who came to Britain in 1997, was a business student at the University of Salford when he carried out his romance fraud scams, preying on “lonely” women and using aliases John Creed, John Windsor and Johnnie Carlo Rissi as he convinced them online to send money.
After his arrest and before his conviction, he applied for British citizenship and was successful. He was jailed for three years in March 2014. The Home Office reviewed his British citizenship and revoked it, then in November 2022 notified him that he would be deported.
After prison, he married a British woman with whom he had two young children. However the tribunal – which consisted of judges Victor Rae-Reeves and Luke Bulpitt – was told that his wife and two children had complex medical issues.
Their youngest child, who is around 18 months old, was born prematurely and has serious development issues so requires close supervision and specialist NHS care. His daughter, six, suffers from eyesight problems.
The tribunal ruled it would be unduly harsh on the children for the family to be deported.
“Moving to Nigeria would significantly disrupt that care, frustrate ongoing investigations and end the consistency of care that they have each been receiving to date. We consider that even if treatment is available, it is considerably harder to get treatment for all three of them in the same location,” it concluded.
The tribunal also said Jack was a “loving and very hands-on father” who played a key role in the upbringing of the children, making it unduly harsh for him, alone, to be removed to Nigeria.
“We find that [Mr Jack] helps both children with their medical needs and therapies and his absence would potentially have a deleterious effect on their health because of the limitations that [his wife] may face in fulfilling such practical tasks,” the panel said.
“We conclude that, given the extremely close relationships that, in these particular circumstances [Mr Jack] shares with [his family], [his] separation from the family as a result of deportation would have a very great emotional and psychological impact on them which goes far beyond the impact that might be experienced where there is not such a close and unbroken shared history.”
The Telegraph
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