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Rapist fakes Christian conversion to avoid deportation
Iranian asylum seeker who raped a 17-year-old spared deportation due to Christian conversion judge accepted was faked
An Iranian asylum seeker who raped a teenage girl has been spared deportation even though a judge believed his conversion to Christianity was a deliberate ploy to cheat the justice system.
The 38-year-old man, who arrived in the UK in 2006, was sentenced to five years' imprisonment after raping the 17-year-old in 2012.
But after his release from prison, a judge ruled that his claim to be Christian meant his deportation to Iran would be a breach of his human rights.
The judge, who acknowledged that the man's religious conversion was part of a ploy to avoid deportation, ruled that his 850 twitter posts quoting the Bible and Christian theology placed him at risk of persecution if he was sent back to Iran.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/12/15/iranian-asylum-seeker-raped-17-year-old-spared-deportation-due/An Iranian asylum seeker who raped a teenage girl has been spared deportation even though a judge believed his conversion to Christianity was a deliberate ploy to cheat the justice system.
The 38-year-old man, who arrived in the UK in 2006, was sentenced to five years' imprisonment after raping the 17-year-old in 2012.
But after his release from prison, a judge ruled that his claim to be Christian meant his deportation to Iran would be a breach of his human rights.
The judge, who acknowledged that the man's religious conversion was part of a ploy to avoid deportation, ruled that his 850 twitter posts quoting the Bible and Christian theology placed him at risk of persecution if he was sent back to Iran.