Pakistani paedophile's legal victory in fight against deportation
A Pakistani paedophile has won a legal battle against efforts to deport him from Scotland after he argued he risks persecution because his crimes were publicised in his home country.
Jamil Ahmed — who molested teenage girls in Britain — said his crimes were covered by newspapers in Pakistan and as a result he would be prosecuted or attacked by 'religious fanatics'.
Ahmed, 48, has managed to avoid deportation and has remained in Scotland since 2008 when he was convicted of abusing a teenage girl He was convicted of a similar offence again in 2013.
He told an asylum court in Edinburgh it would be against his human rights to remove him from the UK.
He has won a legal fight after the Home Office
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