> ‘Gay’ Nigerian criminal can stay in UK despite using wife to claim asylum
>A Nigerian jailed for violence has won a legal battle against deportation after claiming to be gay despite having been married to a woman and fathering a child by another.
>He claimed his removal from the UK would be a breach of his rights to a family life under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
>Soon after, he was jailed for four years for violent disorder, leading to the Government issuing an order for him to be deported.
>After his case was initially rejected, it was put before an upper tribunal where the judges accepted he had made “numerous unsuccessful attempts to regularise his stay in the UK” and had “a clear motivation for maintaining his claim to be gay and to fabricate having had a further relationship with a man”.
>“However, we consider that the appellant’s account should not be rejected solely because of his immigration history or because he did not rely on his sexual orientation to remain in the UK prior to 2015,” they said.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/21/gay-violent-nigerian-criminal-stay-uk-wife-son-deport-echr/