Foreign murderer has been allowed to stay in Britain after a judge ruled that not disclosing his criminal past was an honest mistake

A FOREIGN murderer can remain in Britain after a judge ruled that not disclosing his criminal past was an honest mistake.

The Romanian was jailed for 20 years in his home country in 1997 for suffocating a 60-year-old man with a towel before stealing money from his flat.

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Immigration Judge Luke Bulpitt said he believed the decorator, who was not named, had made a genuine mistake by not naming it “partly as a result of his desire to get on with his job”. criminal past”.

The man had come to Britain in May 2018 EU freedom of movement laws.

In 2019, his residency application was approved when he failed to disclose his previous convictions.

Immigration officials moved in 2022 to deport him as a “serious threat.” Police investigation into an alleged attack on his wife and an argument.

The father of two was arrested for both but not charged.

He appealed on the grounds that it would damage his family life, despite being divorced that year and abandoned by a girlfriend whose son had been placed with him to protect him from his father.

Judge Bulpitt allowed his appeal.

He said there was no evidence the man had committed crimes in Britain and there was no threat.

The home office lost an appeal last month when another judge ruled there were “no legal errors” in the decision.