Failed asylum seeker who intentionally infected someone with HIV deported
The Sunday Mirror has confirmed that the man was deported on Tuesday.
The move came 18 months after he had a conviction and 10-year jail term for infecting two women in Dublin with HIV quashed by the Supreme Court – following a legal saga stretching back to 2018.
The failed asylum seeker was served with deportation orders earlier this year – and sources have confirmed to us that he was finally removed on a flight from Dublin Airport on Tuesday.
No plane was chartered for the operation and the man, who arrived as a juvenile asylum seeker in Ireland in 2008, was flown out on a normal passenger service.
But sources say he was escorted on the journey from Ireland by gardai from the National Immigration Bureau.
'He was deported on a flight on Tuesday,' a source confirmed to us.
The man, who is now in his 30s, had been in custody up until the Supreme Court's decision to quash his sentence in 2023.
He would normally have been released immediately after that decision, but it is understood he remained in custody as the Director of Public Prosecutions considered whether or not he should be retried. Sources tell us no retrial was ordered and the man was told he was being deported - which happened on Tuesday.
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It is unclear if he had spent any time as a free man following the Supreme Court decision – or had remained in custody the whole time.
He had been convicted in early July 2018 of causing serious harm to two partners by intentionally or recklessly infecting them with HIV.
He had denied the charges but a jury at his Dublin Circuit Criminal Court trial returned a unanimous guilty verdict.
The court heard women both started relationships with the man in 2009 and he had unprotected sex with them.
They were tested and found to be HIV positive in 2010.
They both said he was their partner and it was later established he had been diagnosed as HIV positive in 2008 when he was tested upon his arrival in Ireland.
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