The home secretary has won an appeal against a ruling by a tribunal judge that an asylum seeker should be allowed to remain in the UK because he had murdered only one person.
The killer, a 54-year-old Turkish national identified only as KD, arrived on a lorry in 2001 and claimed asylum on the basis of his Kurdish ethnic origin and his Alevi Muslim faith, adding that he was a supporter of groups that are banned in Turkey and elsewhere.
He was refused asylum and in 2004 his appeal was dismissed on the ground that his claims were fraudulent. He and his wife remained in the UK unlawfully. In December 2005, he stabbed her multiple times in a fit of jealous rage. She was 23.
KD was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 12 years. He was released on licence in 2018 and served with a deportation order the following year. His appeal was heard in November 2022 by Judge C Scott, sitting in the First-tier Tribunal. The judge allowed KD’s appeal on asylum grounds.
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