A PAEDOPHILE was allowed to stay in the UK after claiming he’d only preyed on children when his wife wouldn’t have sex with him.
The Pakistani brute, granted anonymity for his own protection, was nicked in August 2022 for messaging decoy children he believed were “barely pubescent girls” online.
He was jailed for 18 months after admitting three counts of attempting to cause a child under 16 to engage in a sexual act.
The crook, who came to Britain on a spousal visa in 2018, was told he’d be deported while in prison in December 2022.
His first appeal on human rights grounds was rejected in June 2023, a month after his release from prison, but his second appeal to a specialist judge was accepted in June last year.
But the sex pest, known only as MH, told the tribunal hearing that he started grooming young girls in March 2021 – when his wife was hospitalised with Covid-19.
He continued the ghoulish behaviour until his arrest after being snared by digital paedophile hunters.
The man’s wife, who regularly visited him in prison, admitted she felt “partly responsible” for his offending because they had not had sex.
The unnamed judge overseeing the hearing said he accepted her “guilt” for failing to give “intimate relations”, which he felt would “detrimentally impact her ability to care for her children”.
He also accepted the pervert has a “genuine and subsisting relationship” with his two kids, aged three and four, who he was permitted up to 12 hours of supervised contact with every day.
The judge also ruled removing him from the country would be “unduly harsh” because he would have “significant difficulties” in Pakistan, where his family took a “dim view” of his sick crimes.
He allowed the fiend’s appeal, meaning he was legally allowed to stay in the country despite being on the sex offenders’ register until 2032.
But the Home Office appealed that result and won last November, meaning the whole case will now be reheard.
Appeals Judge Judith Gleeson concluded the lower court‘s decision to let MH stay was “plainly wrong”.
She added: “The characterisation of the offences as a mere blip in the appellant’s life is unsound and inadequately reasoned.
“The emphasis on the wife’s failure to provide intimate relations to her husband when she was unwell does not explain why the claimant felt the need to engage with barely pubescent girl children online.”
Shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick told The Sun’s Never Mind The Ballots politics show: “This is yet another absolutely disgraceful case.
“The public are right to think that our immigration system is rigged in the interests of people who mean us harm, illegal migrants, against the interests of the British public.
“We’ve got to change our human rights architecture in this country so we can get these people out of the country as quickly as possible.
“That’s a case I’ve made time and again and I want us to take it forward in the future.
“We should not have treaties signed half a century ago getting in the way of getting rapists, paedophiles and murderers off our streets and out of our country.”
Reform MP Rupert Lowe fumed: “My three-step policy solution for dealing with these creatures – deport, deport, deport.
“If the Pakistani Government don’t like it? Cancel their foreign aid. It is that simple.
“£133 million is going to Pakistan this year, scrap the lot until they accept their deported rapists and criminals, with appropriate punishment delivered on arrival.
“If our law does not allow for their deportation? Change the law. Do what needs to be done, and get these monsters out of our country.”
The Home Office was asked to comment.
