The European Court of Human Rights has sparked fresh fury after granting a previously deported Albanian criminal asylum in the UK, on the grounds of the “right to a family life”.
Ardit Binaj, 32, from Albania first entered Britain illegally via a lorry in 2014, before being arrested the following year for burglary.
Binaj was then jailed for 30 months in 2016, but was deported back to Albania six months early. However, he re-entered the UK after just five months, in breach of his deportation order, to be with his Lithuanian girlfriend.
After they had got married and welcomed a child together, Binaj then filed a claim with the ECHR under Article 8 – the right to a family life – which was granted permission on its second attempt, in spite of him working illegally in the UK.
Andrew Pierce has hit out at the ECHR after granted a previously deported criminal permission to stay in Britain
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Expressing his outrage at the case, GB News host Andrew Pierce claimed Binaj is “cocking a snook at the entire law”, and cases such as his are the reason why “people are so furious with the European Court of Human Rights”.
Andrew fumed: “This gentleman broke the law, he comes back into Britain illegally, breaching the deportation order, makes his Lithuanian girlfriend pregnant, and he’s allowed to stay here because of his human rights.
“They’re saying don’t worry about the victims of crime, let’s worry about this criminal who broke the law in the first place, banged up in prison, deported, comes back illegally, impregnates his girlfriend, and can stay because of human rights.”
Responding to Andrew’s fury, Barrister Steven Barrett urged Britons to “blame the ECHR, not him” for the decision, criticising the “vague” laws which enable such asylums to be granted.
The European Court of Human Rights granted Binaj’s claim on its second attempt
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Barrett explained: “Effectively, these these rights are so nebulous, they’re so vague, that nobody really knows what they are at all or what they mean or what stems from them.
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“This office block in Strasbourg that calls itself the European Court of Human Rights gets to make up effectively a political decision that in these circumstances, criminals who nonetheless break the law but managed to have a baby can stay in your country.
“And that is fundamentally overriding what the democratic government has chosen to do.”
Highlighting the inevitable fury Britons may feel towards this case, Barrett noted how the British public are “very much law abiding citizens”, and Binaj should “not been allowed back into the UK”.
Barrett told GB News: “This floating office block can just override us for some jazz hand type reason, and that’s what people will be frustrated by. Because the British public are very law abiding, we’re a rules based order.
Andrew Pierce said the criminal was ‘cocking a snook’ at British law thanks to the ECHR
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“And the rules were clear that he should have been deported, he shouldn’t have been allowed back in.”
Barrett expressed his frustration at the laws of the ECHR, concluding: “It frustrates me as a lawyer, because it doesn’t feel like proper law.
“It doesn’t feel like clear rules were applied in advance that we all knew. It just feels like some external political force that’s able to override our democratic government because, well, why? I have no idea.”