Illegal Immigrant With Cannabis Farming Conviction Wins Appeal After Forgetting How to Speak Serbian

An illegal immigrant who was jailed for running a cannabis farm has been spared deportation back to his native Serbia because he has forgotten the language and would not be able to integrate. Last month an immigration tribunal judge, Fiona Lindsley, allowed an appeal by Clirim Kukaj, 30, “on human rights grounds.” Kukaj, an ethnic Albanian, was born and brought up in Serbia but came to the UK “clandestinely” in 2007, when he was 13 years old. He made an asylum claim, which was refused, but he was granted discretionary leave to remain until June 2010, which was extended until April 2014, when he was granted indefinite leave to remain....