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Rapist Avoids Deportation for Decade, Seeks Compensation for 'Depressing' Tag

Summary

  • Mustafa Taskiran, a Turkish migrant, may receive compensation for being 'depressed' by his electronic tag
  • Taskiran has avoided deportation for over a decade despite committing 54 offenses
  • He was recently convicted of stalking and threatening to kill a woman with a knife
Rapist Avoids Deportation for Decade, Seeks Compensation for 'Depressing' Tag

In a surprising turn of events, a Turkish migrant named Mustafa Taskiran, who has evaded deportation for over a decade despite committing 54 offenses, may now receive compensation due to the 'intense physical and mental distress' he claims to have experienced from wearing an electronic tag.

Taskiran, now 48 years old, was granted indefinite leave to remain in the UK in 1994. However, over the next decade, he went on to commit a staggering 54 offenses, yet managed to escape a deportation order in 2009. In 2014, he was sentenced to six years in prison for rape, and upon his release in 2018, Turkish authorities revoked his nationality and declined to provide travel documents, effectively preventing another deportation attempt.

Just days before Taskiran confessed to stalking and threatening to kill a woman with a knife, a High Court judge, Mr. Justice Lavender, ruled in his favor, paving the way for potential compensation. Taskiran is expected to be sentenced for his latest crimes this month.

The news has sparked outrage, with Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick stating that neither he nor the British public care about the migrant's 'so-called depression' caused by the electronic tag. A Home Office spokesperson, however, has asserted that the government will do everything in its power to deport foreign nationals who commit serious crimes.

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