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A Jamaican man who reportedly committed several criminal acts and was to be deported from the United Kingdom (UK), has won a four-year legal battle to stay in that country.
The man, only identified as KB , was convicted of nine crimes in six years, the UK Sun newspaper reported.
Details of the cases were not disclosed.
The deportation process was triggered after the father of four was sentenced to 12 months in prison for actual bodily harm, the newspaper further said on Friday.
But the UK Court of Appeal allowed the Jamaican to stay based on human rights grounds .
Additionally, the court argued that the man still had time to be a role model to his four children, and it would be unduly harsh to deny him of that opportunity.
File photo of returned Jamaicans in a police service vehicle following the arrival of a deportation flight earlier this year.
National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang and Foreign Affairs Minister, Senator Kamina Johnson Smith, have moved to defend the decision of the Government to accept a flight from the United Kingdom on Wednesday, with 13 deportees aboard.
Apart from the potential risk posed by COVID-19 by persons entering the country, the Jamaican government was accused of being silent while numerous civil rights organisations, celebrities, a former UK Opposition leader and sections of the media made strenuous efforts to get the UK’s Home Office to abort the flight. In the end, only 13 of the reported 50 deportees made the flight after some of the men were granted a last minute reprieve.