Man’s deportation upheld after asylum appeal dismissed

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The Court of Appeal upheld the deportation of an unidentified man after dismissing his asylum appeal on 3 May 2018. The man had been deported to Jordan in 2016 and denied that he posed a national-security threat or recruited for extremist groups.

The court found he had not made a valid asylum application because he had withdrawn an earlier application and had not directly challenged the Minister’s decision refusing his re-entry into the asylum system.

The judgment affirmed the High Court’s decision, which had rejected his actions aimed at preventing deportation. The case concerned deportation and asylum proceedings, rather than a criminal conviction.