A convicted sex offender has been granted refugee status after a judge ruled he faced a risk of “mob violence” in Afghanistan, Sky News reports, with more than half of applicants having their asylum decisions overturned by the Home Office.

The man was found guilty of “outraging public morals and exposure” in 2017 and was placed on the sex offenders register but was allowed to stay in the country.

Several doctors gave evidence at his asylum appeal hearing that he “continued to behave inappropriately towards women”.

In June 2020, an immigration court judge agreed with his lawyers that his “dangerous behavior” would subject him to “abuse” in Afghanistan and granted him refugee status.

Immigration Court, a judge can overturn an immigration court decision work from homehas been ruled in favor of asylum Since 2021, seekers 51% of the time.

Most of those who are unsuccessful do not return home but remain in the UK illegally.

According to figures from the Ministry of Justice, the average annual legal aid bill spent on asylum cases since 2017 is more than £34 million.

Sahil, 47, who applied for asylum after arriving in the UK from Zimbabwe 18 years ago, said her political views put her at risk of persecution. She filed four more claims over the years without success.

She was never threatened with deportation. “They just write and ask if you want to leave voluntarily,” she said.

Analysis of Home Office data by the Migration Observatory shows that almost two-thirds – or 55,273 people who were refused asylum – were not recorded as leaving the UK in the decade since 2011.

This figure – 61 per cent of all failed asylum seekers – is likely to be higher because it does not include partners or children.

Afghan man Abdul Ezedi A woman and two children suffered chemical attack in Clapham, Twice rejected by the Home Office but still in the country.

Despite being on the sex offenders register, He claimed he had converted to Christianity and was granted asylum on appeal and face the risk of persecution in Afghanistan.

Conversion is only one reason for successful appeals.

Sky News has examined court documents which consider “Westernization” as an argument advanced by those whose time in the UK while awaiting a decision means they will face persecution in their home countries.

An Iraqi Kurdish family says their daughter is used to living “as a Western woman”.

The judge said: “If this family moved from Liverpool to Baghdad and continued to live the way they have here, they would soon run into problems.”

Speaking to Sky News earlier this month, Science Minister Andrew Griffiths MP said: “We cannot run an asylum system based on gullible clerics and left-handed lawyers.”

But those who regularly appear against the government dismissed accusations of radicalism in the courtroom.

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“The asylum system is broken,” said Ahmed Aidid, director of the public law department at Duncan Lewis, which regularly represents asylum seekers. “Lawyers only work within the system that’s been created…I think the public is going to be very angry at how the whole system works.”

A Home Office spokesman told Sky News: “We stand by our long-standing policy that those who have no right to remain in the UK will be deported.

“Our Illegal Immigration Act makes this possible because people who enter the UK illegally will have their asylum applications and human rights claims declared inadmissible and they will be unable to make a living here.

“Each asylum application is assessed individually, including decisions on deportation of individuals.

“People can make a new asylum claim through legal representation if they have been previously refused asylum in the UK.”

You can watch Becky Johnson’s full report on Fault Lines: The Asylum Crisis on Sky News today at 10:30, 12:30, 14:30, 18:30 and 20:00.