Hotel overlooking the Indian Ocean with an on-call physician for rapist

It was the sort of devoted care you’d maybe count on to be supplied to a traumatised rape sufferer. A personalised assist package deal that included a three-and-a-half month keep at a cushty lodge overlooking the Indian Ocean with a health care provider on name to provide essential psychological remedy.

This is just not, nonetheless, what was supplied to Hannah, the sufferer of a horrific gang rape when she was simply 16. Instead, it was laid on for her attacker, Yaqub Ahmed, as a part of a determined bid by the Home Office to safe his deportation to East Africa.

Court papers obtained by The Mail on Sunday element how officers had been compelled to attract up an elaborate ‘care plan’ costing tens of 1000’s of kilos for Ahmed in a bid to defeat his makes an attempt to thwart deportation to Somalia on human rights grounds.

The centrepiece of the package deal was for taxpayers to fund a 14-week keep for Ahmed on the Peace Hotel, close to Aden Adde Airport in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu. It included free meals and is estimated to have price as much as £11,800.

With its spectacular roof terrace overlooking the Indian Ocean and tranquil courtyard backyard, the lodge is an oasis of calm amid the chaos of Mogadishu. A preferred alternative amongst diplomats and enterprise chiefs visiting town, its attentive workers scatter pink flower petals on the beds of newly-arrived friends.

 As a part of a determined bid by the Home Office to safe his deportation to East Africa, Yaqub Ahmed, was supplied a sequence of luxurious offers from safety to remedy

A personalised assist package deal that included a three-and-a-half month keep at a cushty lodge overlooking the Indian Ocean with a health care provider on name to provide essential psychological remedy

The centrepiece of the package deal was for taxpayers to fund a 14-week keep for Ahmed on the Peace Hotel, close to Aden Adde Airport in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu. It included free meals and is estimated to have price as much as £11,800

The 45-room lodge’s web site boasts of barbecue evenings, with friends invited to ‘get pleasure from a surprising view of Mogadishu metropolis… with a choice of flame roasted barbecued meats’.

With its fortified gate and excessive compound partitions, the lodge additionally prides itself on its safety, with friends supplied free physique armour and the safety of a group of AK47-wielding bodyguards.

The MoS understands that Ahmed was flown to Somalia on a chartered flight to cease a repetition of his failed 2018 deportation when passengers on the flight, unaware of his crime, demanded he be led off the plane because it sat on the Heathrow tarmac.

It was final evening unclear whether or not there have been another deported criminals aboard the chartered flight, which is estimated to have price round £200,000.

Ahmed arrived at Mogadishu’s airport on August 2 and was met by his personal detachment of armed guards, who escorted him to a ready armour-plated car. In the sort of safety operation usually laid on for visiting VIPs, the car, protected by a pick-up truck with armed guards perched on board, whisked him to the close by lodge.

Security specialists estimate the price of that four-minute drive might have been as much as £1,000.

A typical safety element supplied by the lodge

Once on the Peace Hotel, Ahmed might make the most of a ‘remedy plan particular to his wants’ that had been organised to assist him deal with the stress of being faraway from the UK.

The courtroom papers reveal how this included ‘psychological well being treatment and psychological providers via a clinic’.

His care was to be overseen by a medic referred to in courtroom papers as ‘Dr S’. The Home Office agreed that taxpayers would pay for a month’s provide of antidepressant treatment, the papers state.

‘Dr S had confirmed that such remedy may very well be supplied for a chronic time frame and will embody the supply of treatment and psychological remedy both in individual or remotely,’ one doc added.

The rapist was to be pushed to his common appointments on the clinic. It is unknown whether or not this once more concerned an armoured car and armed guards.

Last evening, Hannah (not her actual title) stated it was ‘surprising’ that Home Office officers had been compelled to put on assist for Ahmed due to human rights legal guidelines.

‘The justice system is not match for goal,’ she stated. ‘The truth they needed to give him this outrageous package deal to have the ability to take away him is ridiculous. I’m grateful they did every little thing they did as a result of we’re lastly rid of him however they should not have had to do this.’ The beneficiant care package deal was drawn up after Ahmed claimed that deporting him to Somalia would breach his human rights due to the danger that he would take his life.

In July 2019, psychiatrist Dr Nuwan Galappathie assessed Ahmed and concluded he suffered from post-traumatic stress dysfunction and extreme melancholy. But that was contradicted by one other psychiatrist, appointed by the Home Office, who stated that whereas he was struggling ‘some depressive signs’ they didn’t qualify as a prognosis of melancholy.

For an attraction listening to, a 3rd psychiatrist, concluded Ahmed’s signs had been ‘gentle… more often than not’, including: ‘Once he arrives in Somalia and is supplied with care [and] assist both domestically, or remotely from the UK, the danger of suicide is more likely to lower.’

After the 14 weeks lodging was urged, Ahmed lastly dropped this authorized problem, earlier than launching one other declare that additional delayed his deportation.

Ahmed’s taxpayer-funded package deal ran out earlier this month and it stays unclear what number of nights he stayed on the Peace Hotel.

Owner Bashir Osman final evening confirmed Ahmed had left and urged he was not the primary deported Somali to remain there.

‘I’m not positive how lengthy he was there. Sometimes there are some individuals like that – additionally they arrive from completely different international locations – principally they keep per week or two or a month. It’s a bit troublesome to know… if they’re deported or not.’