Overview
- Gift Oladele, 24, was found guilty last week of raping a 19-year-old in woodland near Wrexham and is remanded for sentencing next month.
- He had been jailed in December 2022 for two years for falsely imprisoning a woman in Manchester, triggering a Home Office deportation order on January 10, 2023.
- At a December 15, 2023 tribunal, Judge James A. Simpson ruled that continuing the deportation order was not proportionate under Article 8, finding Oladele socially and culturally integrated in the UK.
- Tribunal documents state the Home Office did not attend the hearing and relied on written submissions, a lapse now drawing political criticism.
- The Home Office called the rape an “absolutely horrific case” and pointed to announced reforms to ease removals, while Wrexham MP Andrew Ranger condemned the earlier failure to secure deportation.