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Immigrant to sue the UK for £11 million - for making him UNHAPPY
By Nick Fagge for the Daily Mail
12:54 17 Jun 2012, updated 02:01 18 Jun 2012
An immigrant is suing the Government for £11million for making him unhappy after he and his family were ordered to leave the country.
In what appears to be a legal first, Daniel Kiunsi has issued a High Court writ for the distress he says he has suffered since the decision to eject him.
He claims officials violated his human rights by confiscating his passport three years ago and says it caused his family ‘great unhappiness’.
The electrical engineer from Tanzania says he has ‘scientifically calculated’ the appropriate figure to compensate him and has reached the figure of exactly £11million.
Conservative MP Philip Davies yesterday described the case as ‘outrageous’ and added: ‘The whole thing is completely ridiculous. This just goes to show how so many people see the UK as a soft touch.’
The case revolves around a Home Office decision to strip Mr Kiunsi and his family of the right to live in Britain in May 2009.
Mr Kiunsi arrived in the UK with his wife and three children from Tanzania on a work visa.
But the Home Office revoked his right to live in Britain when he breached the terms of the visa by returning to the UK after working abroad.
The UK Border Agency confiscated his passport but allowed him in to the country after he gave assurances that he and his family would return to Africa.
Officials said he would be able to collect his passport when he left the country, but he remained living in Britain.
Now Mr Kiunsi is demanding the right to stay in the country as well as compensation for the ‘torture, inhuman and degrading treatment’ he has received from the UK authorities, citing the controversial Human Rights Act.
He is understood to be citing his right to liberty, a fair trial and a private and family life to mount his case.
Last night Mr Kiunsi, who is in his forties, was unavailable for comment at his large, red-brick terraced home in a tree-lined street in Upminster, Essex, when approached by the Daily Mail.
Requests to members of his family for an interview via telephone went unanswered, but a young lady at the £222,000 home, who identified herself as Mr Kiunsi’s daughter, told the Mail: ‘My father does not want to talk about this.’
However, he is reported to have said: ‘It’s the issue of the happiness.’
The Home Office has vowed to fight the case.
The report also highlighted the country’s ‘harsh and life-threatening prison conditions, lengthy pre-trial detention, judicial corruption and inefficiency, restrictions on freedoms of the Press and assembly and restrictions on the movement of refugees.
By Nick Fagge for the Daily Mail
12:54 17 Jun 2012, updated 02:01 18 Jun 2012
An immigrant is suing the Government for £11million for making him unhappy after he and his family were ordered to leave the country.
In what appears to be a legal first, Daniel Kiunsi has issued a High Court writ for the distress he says he has suffered since the decision to eject him.
He claims officials violated his human rights by confiscating his passport three years ago and says it caused his family ‘great unhappiness’.
The electrical engineer from Tanzania says he has ‘scientifically calculated’ the appropriate figure to compensate him and has reached the figure of exactly £11million.
Conservative MP Philip Davies yesterday described the case as ‘outrageous’ and added: ‘The whole thing is completely ridiculous. This just goes to show how so many people see the UK as a soft touch.’
The case revolves around a Home Office decision to strip Mr Kiunsi and his family of the right to live in Britain in May 2009.
Mr Kiunsi arrived in the UK with his wife and three children from Tanzania on a work visa.
But the Home Office revoked his right to live in Britain when he breached the terms of the visa by returning to the UK after working abroad.
The UK Border Agency confiscated his passport but allowed him in to the country after he gave assurances that he and his family would return to Africa.
Officials said he would be able to collect his passport when he left the country, but he remained living in Britain.
Now Mr Kiunsi is demanding the right to stay in the country as well as compensation for the ‘torture, inhuman and degrading treatment’ he has received from the UK authorities, citing the controversial Human Rights Act.
He is understood to be citing his right to liberty, a fair trial and a private and family life to mount his case.
Last night Mr Kiunsi, who is in his forties, was unavailable for comment at his large, red-brick terraced home in a tree-lined street in Upminster, Essex, when approached by the Daily Mail.
Requests to members of his family for an interview via telephone went unanswered, but a young lady at the £222,000 home, who identified herself as Mr Kiunsi’s daughter, told the Mail: ‘My father does not want to talk about this.’
However, he is reported to have said: ‘It’s the issue of the happiness.’
The Home Office has vowed to fight the case.
The report also highlighted the country’s ‘harsh and life-threatening prison conditions, lengthy pre-trial detention, judicial corruption and inefficiency, restrictions on freedoms of the Press and assembly and restrictions on the movement of refugees.
