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11:39am Monday 22nd November 2010 in News
By Sam Chadderton
, Reporter
A HEARING has taken place into whether a convicted paedophile from Pakistan should be allowed to stay in the UK.
Zulfar Hussain, 48, was jailed in August 2007, for abducting underage girls in Blackburn and Burnley and sexually exploiting them.
He was placed in an immigration removal centre earlier this year and was set to be deported.
However, he won an appeal which allowed him to remain and potentially return to Blackburn to live with his wife and children.
The Home Office appealed the decision and Hussain, formerly of Cowell Way, Blackburn, has remained locked up pending a final decision.
A spokesman for the UK Borders Agency confirmed his hearing had taken place on Wednesday and that a result was expected in two to three weeks.
Hussain and his co-accused, Qaiser Naveed, 34, formerly of Colne Road, Burnley, were convicted of child abduction, sexual activity with a child and supplying youngsters with heroin.
Naveed did not oppose his deportation and has returned to Pakistan after serving half his five-year, eight-month sentence.
Hussain’ successful appeal against deportation was based on his ‘right to a family life’ as he had lived in Blackburn with his family for 10 years.
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blackburn lady 1
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11:57am Mon 22 Nov 10
Mikeee47
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Ian_G
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retired one
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Carlost
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working chap
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wing commander bomber harris
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blackburn lady 1 wrote:a good point, if my partner did this I'd drop her faster than a burning jobbie. As for family life, what about the abducted kids, what life have they got?
If this twisted individual wants "a family life" why doesn't he take them back to Pakistan? The other question which springs to mind is: Does he still have "a family life"? Because if he had been my partner I wouldn't want him anywhere near me and especially not near any children I might have. By abusing children he has, in my opinion, lost any right to "a family life".
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ENGLISH SKINHEAD
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halfhearted
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workaholic
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4:07pm Mon 22 Nov 10
ENGLISH SKINHEAD wrote:Take Your Blinkers Off Mate! Most of the legal proffesion are not interested in the general public - just in how long they can drag these cases out for and how much coin they can make as a result!
Law will always throw-up decisions that will not please people. Sometimes even a majority of people. We can only expect that our legal system will deliver a correct and appropriate punishment. Lawyers, judges and the probationary services are, after all, people not unlike ourselves. Shocked and horrified at the depths that lowlife will sink. The judiciary has at hand all the correct information, background and advice. Presumably they will make a correct decision, under law.
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wotthe
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uptanutz
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6:20pm Mon 22 Nov 10
Joe Smith wrote:you could have quoted another post but you ride alone!
You loons in the UK put up with this carry on, get on the streets and do some thing about it, vote BMP they will clear them out,
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ENGLISH SKINHEAD
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burty basset
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workaholic
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10:25pm Tue 23 Nov 10
burty basset wrote:You nicked that coment from Monty Python and the Holy Grail!
if he stays then he should have his willy chopped off and his eyes gouged out
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