Overview

• MW arrived in the UK at six and holds indefinite leave to remain but has amassed 42 convictions for offences including robbery, drug dealing, fraud and burglary.
• The First-tier Immigration Tribunal found he met the public interest exception to deportation under UK law because none of his sentences exceeded four years.
• A second judge rejected the Home Office challenge, cementing the tribunal’s decision that he cannot be removed from the UK.
• The ruling highlighted his PTSD, opioid addiction, diabetes and decades-long absence from Uganda, which judges said would leave him mentally unprepared and unsupported on return.
• The case illustrates the tension between community safety concerns and protections under human rights law in the UK’s immigration enforcement