Somali rapist whose deportation was halted after a mutiny by passengers on his plane receives £80,000 in legal aid after suing police for breaches of his human rights and false imprisonment
- Somalian Yaqub Ahmed, 34, has received £77,795 in legal aid for his cases
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A gang rapist who was dragged off a deportation flight after passengers mutinied to prevent take off has received nearly £80,000 in legal aid.
Somalian Yaqub Ahmed, 34, was convicted for a sex attack on a 16-year-old teenage girl in central London in 2007.
After being jailed for nine years in 2008 alongside three accomplices, he was served with deportation papers.
He was hauled off a deportation flight to Turkey in 2018 after bleeding heart passengers at Heathrow caused a hold-up.
And figures from the Home Office show that the taxpayer has paid £77,795 for his legal aid.
Yaqub Ahmed, 34, was sentenced to nine years in prison in 2008 for his part in a gang rape in central London
Nigel Mills MP said the gang rapist had ‘no right’ to be in the country and that a ‘huge amount’ had been spent on his defence
The lawyers’ bill includes thousands for suing the police over his treatment.
The convicted rapist claimed his human rights were breaches and that he was falsely imprisoned.
Conservative MP Nigel Mills told The Sun it was a ‘huge’ amount of taxpayers’ money to spend on someone convicted of a ‘horrific crime’.
‘He has no right to be in this country’
It was revealed in February that Ahmed was due to be deported but the Home Office will not confirm if he remains in the country.
He had been due to be deported in 2018 but do-gooder plane passengers who were unaware of his history prevented the flight taking off.
A video of their action trended at the time and in it holiday-makers on the plane bound for Turkey can be heard chanting ‘Take him off the plane.’
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