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Politiko 2024-02-27 19:58:37

Convicted for drug trafficking, England returns the 40-year-old to Albania

An Albanian jailed in England for drugs will be released after judges ruled his threat to public safety outweighed his human rights claim in a test case.

Neritan Kolludra , 40, the leader of an Albanian organized crime group, was sentenced to 14 years and four months in prison in December 2019 for conspiracy to supply cocaine on a "wholesale basis".

Ministers sought to deport him two years later, but Kolludra, who had been granted permanent residence in the UK and had a wife and three children, claimed this would be a breach of his right to a family under the European Convention of Human Rights.

Two judges in the lower and upper immigration courts ruled that the impact of deportation on his family life was "more than the serious risk of committing a criminal offense and the resulting danger to the public" He will serve the rest of his sentence in an Albanian prison. It follows the introduction of new laws to ease the deportation of foreign criminals aimed at tackling the UK's prison overcrowding crisis.

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