Skip's Clips: UK: Anger as sex attacker stays in UK

Gabrielle Brown says her attacker has no right to stay in the UK

A victim of a serial sex attacker is "appalled" that he will not be deported in order to protect his human rights.

An Asylum and Immigration Tribunal upheld a ruling which blocked moves by the Home Office to deport the man, who cannot be named for legal reasons.

Mr Justice Hodge said the 20-year-old should stay in the UK as he came here from Sierra Leone, aged six, and had virtually no family in West Africa.

Victim Gabrielle Browne, 42, said he had no right to stay in the country.

... Her attacker had admitted indecently assaulting 11 women in the past five years.

He is being allowed to stay in the UK after his release under article eight of the Human Rights Act, which gives a person a right to a family life.

... A Home Office spokesman said: "We believe that foreign nationals who commit serious crimes should be deported.

"We are disappointed that the courts reached this decision on 1 March 2007, and as a result deportation could not proceed in this case."

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