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Nigerian asylum swindler (who originally claimed to be from Sierra Leone) gets a €7.5K pay-day.

First half of this report is about the legal mumbo-jumbo that they used to tie the gardaí up with. The second half has some details that I'll try to sum up:

The man arrived here in 2008 and claimed he was from Sierra Leone. He was refused asylum and subsequently sought subsidiary protection (that's when your asylum claim is found to bogus but you say you might find some hardship if you were forced to go home).

On August 1st, 2011, he was arrested on a bus in Dundalk which had travelled down from the north and was detained for not holding a valid passport or visa, pending his deportation.

The next day, he was released but immediately re-arrested and detained under a fresh detention order similar to the first one.

He complained to the High Court but it ruled on August 9th 2011 that his detention was lawful so he appealed to the Supreme Court. In the interim, his subsidiary protection application was refused.

On August 26th 2011, the Supreme Court said he needed to be released because the warrant to detain him had some clerical errors.

He was released at 3PM that day but was immediately re-arrested with a new warrant that was filled in properly this time.

Because he should have been released at 1.15pm (after the Supreme court had made their judgment) but was instead released at 3PM, he told the High Court he was deprived of his right to liberty for those 105 minutes.

The Garda Commissioner said he would only have been re-arrested no matter what time he was released at but the legal mumbo-jumbo the Nigerian's legal team used won out.

The High Court ruled today he was entitled to €7,500 compensatory damages for false imprisonment over the 26 days from August 1st to August 26th 2011 (nearly ten years ago).

Not reported is who funded this legal action and who encouraged him to take it but it's got a fierce whiff of NGOs about it. Nor is it explained what he's still doing in Ireland.

https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/state-fails-to-overturn-e7500-award-to-asylum-seeker-over-unlawful-detention-1115160.html