Astrit Mija killed his flatmate in 2003 and has spent the past 17 years in prison.
He was jailed for life after being found guilty of manslaughter by diminished responsibility for the attack on Arben Basha at their home in Ipswich – four years after he arrived in Britain and falsely claimed to be a Kosovan refugee.
He would normally be deported after completing his sentence, but an immigration judge ruled that despite free psychiatric care in Albanian hospitals and the killer having a strong motivation to take his medication and not appearing obviously mentally unwell , it would breach his human rights to send him home.