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Zenel Beshi: The criminal who even 50 convictions won't move from Britain

Politiko 2025-06-30 11:23:19

Zenel Beshi: The criminal who even 50 convictions won't move from Britain

An Albanian national with nearly 50 criminal convictions has been allowed to remain in the United Kingdom after a court ruled his crimes were not "too extreme" to justify deportation, The Telegraph reports .

Zenel Beshi, previously sentenced in Italy to six years in prison for robbery, theft and unlawful imprisonment, poses a “serious and continuing threat” to public safety, according to British authorities. However, the High Court of Immigration dismissed the Home Office’s attempts to deport him, stating that his actions do not cause “deep public disgust”.

The Home Office claims that Beshi failed to declare his convictions when he entered the UK in 2020, and that he poses a real risk to society. In July 2022, it rejected his application for leave to remain and ordered his deportation. But an appeal lodged by Beshi was upheld after a psychologist declared that he was “at a low risk of reoffending”.

In the final ruling, Judge Leonie Hirst said that while Besh’s crimes were serious, “they were not of the extreme kind that would justify deportation.” She also stressed that the failure to disclose previous convictions was of little relevance to the case.

The decision has sparked a political backlash. The shadow home secretary, Chris Philp, called the decision "disturbing" and accused the judges of being "out of touch with reality".

"Foreign citizens who have committed crimes should be returned to their countries. It is time for the rights of victims to come before the rights of criminals," he said.

Meanwhile, the current Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, is proposing changes to immigration law to limit the use of human rights as a basis for stopping the deportation of foreign criminals, as well as to force courts to take public safety more into account in their decisions.

This case is just one of a number of recently uncovered examples where convicted criminals manage to avoid deportation from the UK, sparking heated debates about how the country's current justice and immigration system works.

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