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A rapist who has avoided being deported for more than a decade could receive compensation because an electronic tag made him ‘depressed’.
Mustafa Taskiran may be granted compensation as lawyers engage in legal arguments over whether ‘appropriate relief’ should be given to the Turkish migrant.
A High Court judge, Mr Justice Lavender, ruled in his favour just days prior to the 48-year-old confessing to stalking and threatening to kill a woman with a knife.
Taskiran is expected to be sentenced this month.
He told the court that the tag caused him ‘intense physical and mental distress’ due to its heaviness and discomfort.
It comes after decades of crime – beginning four years after the Turkish man was granted indefinite leave to remain in the UK in 1994.
Over the course of 10 years he went on to commit 54 offences, but escaped a deportation order in 2009.
Mustafa Taskiri, 48, may receive compensation including because an electronic tag made him ‘depressed’ after years of avoiding being deported to Turkey
In 2014, he was sentenced to six years behind bars for rape.
Following his release in 2018, Turkish authorities revoked his nationality and declined to release travel documents, meaning another deportation attempt had failed.
Taskiran was then ordered to wear a 24-hour electronic tag while he is on immigration bail, The Sun reported.
Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick told the newspaper that he nor Brits up and down the country care about the migrant’s ‘so-called depression’.
A Home Office spokesperson said: ‘When foreign nationals commit serious crimes we do everything in our power to deport them.’
