Overview

• Immigration officers uncovered three grotesque child-abuse videos on Osamah Al-Haddad’s phone during a routine asylum screening at Heathrow Airport
• Al-Haddad pleaded guilty to three counts of making indecent photos of children and one count of making a pseudo-photograph of a child
• Judge Fiona Barrie imposed a 30-week prison term suspended for one year, ordered 150 hours of unpaid work and issued a 10-year sexual harm prevention order
• UK law allows deportation of asylum seekers sentenced to more than one year in prison but Al-Haddad’s sub-year suspended term preserved his asylum status
• The court accepted evidence that returning him to Yemen would expose him to forced conscription by Houthi rebels, leading to a pause in his removal