Violent drug dealer dodged deportation because his daughter might be transgender

A VIOLENT drug dealer dodged deportation as his daughter thought she might be transgender.

The 48-year-old Jamaican was allowed to stay under European human rights laws, despite being jailed multiple times.

The dad of three, granted anonymity by the courts, was convicted of dealing crack and heroin and also attacked his partner in front of his kids.

He was jailed for three-and-a-half years in 2021 — his fifth spell in prison since arriving in the UK in 1991.

Known only as “GH”, he appealed against a Home Office deportation order after his release.

His lawyers argued one of his children “became withdrawn” when he was in jail and “continued to struggle even after his release”.

They added: “The same child was experiencing issues with her gender identity, which she had only been able to discuss with her father.”

Judge CL Taylor controversially ruled GH should remain.

She said his right for a family life outweighed public interest under the European Convention on Human Rights.

The Home Office then unsuccessfully appealed against the decision at a hearing in London.

Reform MP Rupert Lowe blasted last night: “If you come to our country and commit serious crime, you should be deported.

“We do not care about the criminal’s right to a family life.”

Former Tory minister Sir Alec Shelbrooke added: “I am stunned by how poor a decision this is.

“We have to disentangle British law from the ECHR to stop decisions like these from being made.”

A Home Office spokesman told The Sun: "Foreign nationals who commit heinous crimes should be in no doubt that we will do everything to make sure they are not free on our streets, including removal from the UK at the earliest possible opportunity.

"In the first six months since the election, we removed more than 2,580 foreign criminals, a 23% increase on the same period last year."