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A murderer and gang leader who fought a human rights battle to remain in the UK and cost taxpayers thousands of pounds is still on the island nation and has filed another court appeal.
This is what the British newspaper The Sun writes about 59-year-old Maksim Çela, who it reports first sought asylum, saying his underworld rivals would kill him if he returned to Albania. He then changed his story and launched a legal battle for human rights, claiming that his deportation would put him at risk of degrading treatment or torture.
Çela even managed to secure a ruling from a UK immigration judge that allowed him to remain anonymous, until The Sun newspaper revealed his identity after a 23-month legal battle, the British newspaper continues.
He lost his battle against deportation in May, but The Sun, which Top Channel refers to, learns that he is continuing the fight, "this time in the Court of Appeal, in a move that could cost taxpayers a fortune."
The scandal has highlighted the difficulty of removing illegal immigrants once they arrive in the UK, as thousands more arrive every week by boat and lorry.
"This appalling case shows everything we need to know about Britain's broken asylum system. This terrorist, gangster and police killer clearly has no right to stay in the UK, but is playing the system like a fiddle and laughing at the law," said former Conservative Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick, now shadow justice minister.
Çela, who was born in the Albanian town of Lushnja, claims to have worked in a dental clinic and a hospital. But a UK asylum court heard he was, in fact, a “violent terrorist” who planned to detonate a bomb in a 12,000-seat football stadium in 2000. After the plot came to light in 2001, an Albanian court sentenced him to five years in prison.
He was later sentenced to 25 years in prison in September 2006 for "terrorist" offences and illegal possession of weapons in connection with the murder of an Albanian police officer fighting crime. Çela was released in December 2022 and arrived at Heathrow Airport a few days after his release with a forged passport. / Top Channel
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