Laughing at Britain: Czech drug seller posing in £1,500 Moncler jacket on suburban road symbolises every little thing that’s unsuitable with delicate contact UK

Dressed in ripped jeans and a £1,500 designer jacket, a Czech drug dealer shows his defiance for Britain’s lax border controls after supposedly being deported.

‘Vile’ Patrik Durac has a lengthy criminal record in the UK, serving prison sentences for affray and supplying heroin.

Yet as these exclusive pictures show, he was back on our streets just months after being thrown out of the country.

When he was finally arrested and kicked out again, the jobless 27-year-old tried to exploit a notorious ‘back door’ for migrants by catching a ferry from Ireland to the Welsh port of Holyhead while carrying a false passport, a court heard.

This time he was stopped by border officials and challenged over his identity, retorting: ‘I know my rights.’

Durac is now set to spend Christmas behind bars before being sentenced in the new year.

But critics said the scandal illustrated how foreign national offenders were ‘treating our borders like a revolving door’, saying the system was ‘broken’.

He was one of hundreds of illegal migrants to target ferries arriving at Holyhead and other Irish Sea ports every year in the hope of exploiting freedom of movement rules.

Despite a court hearing that he had been refused asylum in the UK and had an application under the EU settlement scheme rejected, Durac – who claims to suffer an ‘incurable’ health condition which made him unfit to work – set up home in Stoke-on-Trent.

But in 2019 he and his younger brother were among a gang which punched and kicked a man in front of terrified children and elderly members of the public.

He admitted affray over what a court heard was an ‘ugly’ revenge attack at Hanley Bus Station on a busy Saturday afternoon and was jailed for ten months.

Two years later he was back at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court after police stopped a car in which he was a passenger and found £1,490 worth of heroin and cocaine plus a quantity of cash.

Durac insisted he had not played an active part in the drug-dealing, but he pleaded guilty to being concerned with the supply of heroin and cocaine and jailed for 14 months.

After being freed, in October 2022 he was arrested trying to re-enter the UK at Holyhead and given another eight-month sentence, a court heard this week.

In 2023 he was deported indefinitely, yet in 2024 his social media shows him back on the streets of the Potteries.

One photograph from that October features Durac – wearing ripped jeans and a £1,500 Moncler jacket – making a double finger gesture as he hides his face.

In response, a Czech friend commented: ‘You’re back UK yes.’

Further images shows Durac posing with hooded friends around Staffordshire.

He was finally arrested in March before being removed again for immigration offences.

Yet on December 5 he was arrested at Holyhead after arriving under a passport and ID card in the name of Martin Rafael.

Despite his fingerprints revealing his true identity, he claimed to have never heard of Patrik Durac, Llandudno magistrates court was told, adding: ‘I don’t know him.’

It is believed he legitimately changed his name while in the Czech Republic following his latest removal from the UK.

Durac has been ‘involved in criminal activity’ throughout his time in the UK, prosecutor James Neary told the hearing.

But the prosecutor said: ‘He’s deliberately been able to get that passport to facilitate his entry, illegally, into the UK.’

Durac admitted entering the UK in breach of a deportation order.

Committing him to custody ahead of his sentencing, District Judge Gwyn Jones said Durac’s offence had shown ‘sophistication’.

‘Of greater concern is the past record which shows a pattern of persistence in attempting to get into the UK when subject to a deportation order and your continued pattern of offending,’ he added.

Border officers say illegal migrants like Durac regularly try to sneak in via Holyhead and other Irish Sea ports.

Under the Common Travel Area scheme, citizens of the UK and Republic of Ireland are able to move freely between the two countries.

At least 177 people have been refused entry at Holyhead so far this year, with an enforcement operation in October resulting in the seizure of £20,000 in criminal cash along with multiple false identity documents.

Jonathan Gullis, who until last year was Conservative MP for Stoke-on-Trent North but who has now defected to Reform UK, said ‘vile’ criminals like Durac ‘show exactly how dangerous our broken border system has become’.

Mr Gullis, now mayor of Kidsgrove, added: ‘This violent, convicted drug dealer was supposedly deported for good, yet has still been able to sneak back into the UK again and again, spreading fear and misery in our communities.

‘People in Stoke-on-Trent, across Staffordshire, and right across the United Kingdom are crying out for proper border controls so foreign national offenders can’t treat our borders like a revolving door and keep endangering the British people.’

In a statement the Home Office said: ‘Everyone entering the UK must comply with immigration rules.

‘Anyone entering in breach of a deportation order will be detained and removed.

‘The Home Secretary has announced the most sweeping reforms in modern times to remove incentives attracting illegal migrants to the UK and to ensure removal of those with no right to remain.’

Border Force conducts security checks on all passengers arriving at the UK border on scheduled services, with ‘intelligence-led activity’ used to target those planning on exploiting the rules.