After the Conservative Party finally agreed it was time to leave the European Convention on Human Rights, Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp released a full dossier of some of the craziest rulings that have come as a result of Strasbourg.
In a three and a half minute video, Mr Philp admitted that the ECHR was set up by Winston Churchill and other European leaders for "good reason" following the "horrors of the 1930s and 1940s".
However, the Shadow Home Secretary went on to warn that the convention's Articles were "vaguely drafted", adding: "They mean whatever a judge says they mean."
Following the 1998 Human Rights Act, the ECHR's controversial articles have been enshrined in UK law, overriding the will of the democratically elected parliamentarians.
The ECHR defied Swiss MPs when it ruled in favour of the Senior Women for Climate Protection.
But what are some of the examples of the ECHR's controversial rulings in the UK?
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Zimbabwean paedophile kept in UK over 'hostility' concerns
A convicted Zimbabwean paedophile was allowed to stay in the UK amid fears he would face "hostility" if he was deported to his home country.
The man, who was also granted anonymity and known only as RC, was jailed for more than five years for child sex offences.
However, judges cited Article 3 of the ECHR, which prohibits torture, inhuman treatment and degrading punishment, to argue he was likely to face “substantial hostility” as an openly gay man.
Judge Sarah Pinder rejected an appeal by the Home Office against a lower tribunal ruling in the man’s favour, saying that the evidence justified its decision to allow the Zimbabwean to remain in the UK.
ECHR Articles 3 and 8 have been cited to keep dangerous criminals in the UK
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An Albanian drug kingpin who was jailed for more than three years for running a cannabis factory avoided deportation after judges ruled it would deprive his daughter of a “male role model”.
Xhoni Leka, who arrived in the UK illegally in 2013, was caught in possession of class B drugs with intent to supply in 2020.
The Home Office served him with a deportation order but he successfully appealed by arguing it would breach his right to a family life under Article 8.
Judges Fiona Lindsley and Mark Symes concluded that Leka had a “particularly close relationship” with his daughter and that “the central role he plays in providing her with financial and emotional security and a stable and loving home suffices”.
Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp highlighted the egregious cases last night
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'Gay' Nigerian who fathered son with woman avoids deportation
A Nigerian who had been jailed for violence won his legal battle against deportation after claiming he was gay.
The man, who arrived in the UK in 1983, initially made a series of unrelated asylum claims unrelated to his sexuality.
However, the criminal claimed he had a gay relationship with a friend while at school in Africa.
Despite marrying a woman and fathering a child with another, the criminal claimed his removal would be a breach of his rights to a family life under Article 8 and risked persecution under Article 3.
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Ugandan murderer jailed for life avoids deportation in order to protect his mental health
A foreign criminal who clubbed a man to death in the back of an ambulance avoided deportation in order to protect his mental health.
The Ugandan murderer, who received a life sentence, won his legal battle after lawyers argued it would be "inhumane" because his home country does not have the required facilities to treat his mental health.
The court accepted that there would be a “serious, rapid and irreversible decline” in his mental wellness if he was deported.
The man, who was a member of a North London gang, cited Article 3 which protects people from inhuman and degrading treatment or torture.
The man, who was a member of a North London gang, cited Article 3 which protects people from inhuman and degrading treatment or torture
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Jamaican man who raped sleeping woman avoids deportation after coming out as bisexual
A Jamaican man who raped a sleeping woman avoided deportation from the UK after coming out as bisexual.
The man, known only as AA, had been convicted in 2018 of forcing himself on a sleeping woman who was under the influence of alcohol while he had been smoking cannabis and drinking at a party.
At the time the man had claimed that he did not know that having sex with someone who was sleeping was rape.
However, Judge Mary Mulready ruled the offender continued to have “a well-founded fear of persecution” if he were returned to that country after being in a relationship with an older man that he did not consider at the time to be sexual abuse.
Rapist avoids deportation after judge rules his criminal record puts him at risk
A Jamaican rapist avoided deportation after a judge ruled that his criminal record would likely exempt him from witness protection.
The man, who was yet again granted anonymity, spent more than a decade in witness protection before entering the UK as a visitor in 2001.
He was granted witness protection after his mother had been the main prosecution witness in convicting and jailing the gang leader for murder.
However, Jamaica was unlikely to grant him witness protection again after he was convicted of unlawful wounding, burglaries and rape.
Judges cited Article 3 which protects against persecution, degrading treatment and torture.
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