Overview
- District Judge Nina Tempia ordered Azizadeen Alsheikh Suliman’s surrender, with District Judge Timothy King delivering the decision at Westminster Magistrates’ Court.
- Suliman, 31, was convicted in Osnabrück in 2022 of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old and supplying cannabis, receiving a suspended sentence.
- After stopping payments on a court-imposed financial order and facing possible imprisonment, he crossed the Channel by small boat, gave a different spelling of his name on arrival—an error he blamed on an interpreter—and claimed asylum.
- He argued that extradition would breach his Article 8 right to family life and cited threats from a rival clan, but the court rejected those reasons.
- He remains in custody under a European Arrest Warrant following his October 17, 2025 arrest at a Greater Manchester hotel, and the case has sparked criticism from local officials and politicians alongside a Home Office pledge to scale up removals.