Migrant who raped sleeping lady avoids deportation after claiming he’s ‘bisexual’ and HIS life can be in peril if despatched again to Jamaica

A migrant who raped a sleeping woman has won a bid to stay in the UK after arguing his life would be in danger if he was deported to Jamaica because he is ‘bisexual’.

The 41-year-old claimed he didn’t know that having sex with a woman who is sleeping was wrong.

The man, who was granted anonymity for his own protection, was sentenced to seven years in jail in 2018 for the rape at a party.

He was released in June 2021 and given a deportation order, with The Home Office branding him a ‘danger to the community’.

But the migrant challenged this because he had been subject to violence in his home country due to his sexuality and that was why he moved to the UK in 2018.

He told the tribunal he was attacked with a ‘metal bar, machete and dogs’. 

The tribunal was also told that an older man he was dating was killed for being gay.

An expert said the migrant would be a ‘target’ if he returned due to his sexuality – but The Home Office said there was only evidence of him dating women in the UK.

The first migrants of 2025, picked up at sea attempting to cross the English Channel

Migrants are helped to disembark from Border Force vessel on January 4

The judge ruled the migrant was ‘incentivised not to re-offend by the threat of return to prison’ and he is allowed to stay, according to The Sun.

An application to appeal this decision was rejected in November.

Former security minister Sir John Hayes told the newspaper: ‘This is an insult to every victim.

‘This man should be thrown out of the country.’

The Home Office said: ‘We made the case to deport this individual and lost in the courts.’

It comes after a Syrian became the first UK-bound migrant of the new year to die in the English Channel after being ‘crushed to death’ in an overcrowded small boat.

The unnamed man, who was in his 20s, was in a flimsy dinghy that was launched in the early hours of Saturday from a beach near Calais.

It was full of asylum seekers heading from France to England, but began to collapse in freezing cold seas and so turned back.

‘The boat set off from Sangatte beach,’ said a spokesman for France’s Maritime Prefecture.

‘But a few minutes later, it returned and the group disembarked from the soaking wet boat.

A view of confiscated small boats and outboard motors used to cross the Channel from France at a warehouse facility in Dover

‘Among those rescued was a man in his twenties of Syrian nationality, but he suffered a cardiac arrest, probably after being crushed by the other migrants.’

Such horrific deaths have become common on a route that claimed 77 lives in 2024.

‘It is the first death as sea in such circumstances in 2025,’ said the prefecture spokesman.

He said around 30 people were taken off the boat in all, despite it being designed for a maximum of 12.

Four others, including a 15-year-boy, were rushed to hospital, while the rest were treated at the scene for a variety of conditions, including hypothermia.

Two suspected people smugglers have already been arrested as part of an investigation opened by the Boulogne-sur-Mer prosecutor’s office.

On December 29th, four people died after 100 people tried to get on board a dinghy in exactly the same area.

Charity workers reported one group getting on board the boat at Sangatte, and then another appearing a few minutes later.

One said: ‘A boat was supposed to set off with sixty people on board, but a group of fifty additional people tried to get on the boat.

‘This created extreme panic, causing many to end up in the water. Following some people getting off the boat, it continued to England.’

People smugglers were seen before the boat set off, and it was likely that rival gangs tried to claim use of the same boat, said another witness.