{"id":168305,"date":"2025-06-08T18:59:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T18:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/168305\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T18:59:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T18:59:13","slug":"albanian-drug-dealer-who-illegally-sneaked-back-into-britain-weeks-after-being-deported-succeeds-in-remaining-in-the-uk-by-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/168305\/","title":{"rendered":"Albanian drug dealer who illegally sneaked back into Britain weeks after being deported succeeds in remaining in the UK by judge"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Albanian drug dealer who sneaked back into Britain just weeks after being deported has succeed to remain in the UK – even after committing more crimes on his return.<\/p>\n

Stiljano Ziu has been allowed to stay in the UK despite the asylum court hearing he committed a ‘flagrant’ breach of immigration laws, having already been deported from the country once.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ziu was jailed for producing cannabis just months after entering Britain illegally, it was heard.<\/p>\n

He then ‘took advantage of the early release scheme’ by agreeing to deportation in exchange for finishing his sentence early.<\/p>\n

He then entered the UK again illegally just weeks later.<\/p>\n

During his second illegal stint in the UK, which is still ongoing, Ziu committed more drugs offences and was recently jailed for four and a half years.<\/p>\n

A crown court judge previously said of Ziu that he came to the UK ‘prepared to do any activity, legal or illegal’, the asylum court heard.<\/p>\n

However, after a long and complicated legal process he has won his fight to remain in the UK after the Immigration and Asylum Chamber of the Upper Tribunal ruled in his favour.<\/p>\n

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The asylum court heard Ziu had illegally entered the UK just weeks after being deported (file image)<\/p>\n

Ziu won his appeal due to his marriage to a Greek woman in the UK after entering the country for the second time.<\/p>\n

The Home Office had refused to give him a residence card after his marriage.<\/p>\n

Ziu won his case after the asylum court heard he was not a ‘present threat’.<\/p>\n

Ziu may still face deportation as a result of his recent drugs conviction, Upper Tribunal Judge Jonathan Perkins said.<\/p>\n

The Upper Tribunal heard Ziu first entered the UK unlawfully in 2017 or 2018 and by November 2018 was convicted of producing cannabis charges and was jailed for nine months.<\/p>\n

He was released from his prison sentence early, on the basis he agreed to be deported in December 2018.<\/p>\n

However he was already back in early 2019.<\/p>\n

‘He returned within weeks in clear breach of the deportation order’, the tribunal was told.<\/p>\n

‘There can be no clearer case of abuse of immigration laws.<\/p>\n

‘He took advantage of the early release scheme and had no intention of remaining in Albania.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘He had the resources, means and contacts to return illegally.’<\/p>\n

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The asylum court heard Ziu was not a ‘present threat’ and should be allowed to stay in the UK<\/p>\n

His presence in the UK went unnoticed until December 2020 when he applied for a residence card as the spouse of a Greek woman exercising treaty rights in the UK.<\/p>\n

He had met her upon his return and married her in April 2021.<\/p>\n

‘He is still benefitting from his illegal entry and worked illegally too’, it was heard.<\/p>\n

The Home Office refused Ziu’s request, leading to his case at the asylum court.<\/p>\n

During court hearings it had to be determined whether the Home Office had showed that Ziu presented a ‘present threat’.<\/p>\n

At one hearing in 2022, the Home Office accepted that there was ‘not a present serious threat in relation to a propensity to re-offend’.<\/p>\n

At a 2023 hearing, Ziu won the first stage of his appeal.<\/p>\n

The judge in 2023 criticised Ziu’s ‘flagrant and serious breach of UK immigration laws’ but said the Home Office had not shown he was a ‘present threat’ of re-offending.<\/p>\n

The decision led to the Home Office appealing it at the Upper Tribunal.<\/p>\n

Before the Upper Tribunal hearing, Ziu wrote a letter stating that in November 2024 he was jailed for four and a half years for conspiring to supply class B drugs.<\/p>\n

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During his second illegal stint in the UK Ziu has committed more drugs offences and was recently jailed for four and a half years (file image)<\/p>\n

The offending happened between January 2020 and June 2022.<\/p>\n

At the Upper Tribunal hearing, it was ruled that the Home Office had not successfully challenged the 2023 decision that Ziu was not a risk of re-offending.<\/p>\n

But, Judge Perkins admitted ‘it may be that this case has been an academic exercise’ because Ziu may now face deportation due to his recent conviction.<\/p>\n

Judge Perkins said: ‘Putting everything together we are satisfied that the judge [in 2023] made a decision that was open to her and gave lawful reasons.<\/p>\n

‘We therefore dismiss the Secretary of State’s appeal.<\/p>\n

‘What happens next is of course a matter for the Secretary of State.<\/p>\n

‘However, [Ziu] must understand that his recent conviction has resulted in a sentence that may require his deportation from the United Kingdom and that is something the Secretary of State will consider.<\/p>\n

‘Nevertheless… we find that the Secretary of State has failed to show that the [2023] tribunal erred in law and we dismiss the Secretary of State’s appeal.’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Albanian drug dealer who sneaked back into Britain just weeks after being deported has succeed to remain…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[748,92,393,4884,12,1144,712,1992,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-168305","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-dailymail","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-northern-ireland","16":"tag-scotland","17":"tag-the-home-office","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114649287584516646","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}