- Karwan Qadir Hama Saleh stated he was falsely imprisoned for 635 days
A refugee who was jailed twice for drug offences is suing the Home Office for £150,000 over a bid to deport him again to Iraq.
Karwan Qadir Hama Saleh, 42, stated he was falsely imprisoned by the Home Office for 635 days whereas being held in immigration detention straight after his launch from jail.
He was jailed for possession of hashish with intent to produce, for 30 months in 2015 and for a yr in 2018.
After his launch, Saleh was put in immigration detention, which he claims constitutes false imprisonment and private damage.
He hopes the High Court will award him damages of as much as £150,000 paid by the Home Office for it.
Karwan Qadir Hama Saleh, 42, stated he was falsely imprisoned by the Home Office for 635 days whereas being held in immigration detention straight after his launch from jail (file picture)
He arrived within the UK in 2002 and was initially given 4 years to remain, till he was granted indefinite go away to stay in 2010. This was till he was jailed twice and was attributable to be deported.
‘I’m pleased right here. I’ve a companion and a life and the considered being compelled again to Iraq scares the hell out of me,’ Saleh informed the Sun.
The 42-year-old stated he has psychological well being issues like PTSD from when he lived in Iraq, the place he stated he was shot and tortured by the Kurdish navy.
‘I served a jail sentence for hashish but it surely was solely 7g and, for that, I used to be in jail for 3 years. It is completely unfair.’
Saleh and his companion of eight years, 41-year-old Monica Hrickova, who was born in Slovakia, now reside collectively in Cardiff.
The Home Office, from which Saleh is hoping to receives a commission damages for the alleged false imprisonment, informed the Sun: ‘Foreign nationwide offenders don’t have any proper to be within the UK, which is why we’re deporting them.’