A tribunal heard AA had been in a sexual relationship with an older man in Jamaica when aged 13 and 14, and due to his sexuality he was “repeatedly violently attacked in Jamaica, leading to multiple scars on his head and body including from a metal bar, a machete, and attacks by dogs”.
Convicted rapist avoids deportation to Jamaica because he is bisexual A convicted rapist who attacked a sleeping woman cannot be deported from the UK to Jamaica because he is bisexual, judges have ruled.
Fighting deportation, the man - who moved to the UK in 2001 – argued he “would be at risk on return to Jamaica as a bisexual man”.
The Home Office suggested AA is “a danger to the community”, while Judge Melissa Canavan noted that he initially claimed to not know he had committed a crime by having sex with the woman after she had been drinking and gone to sleep.
The tribunal in 2023 found that AA’s evidence was not “entirely credible” on his understanding of rape, but it also highlighted that he has apologised in writing to the victim and attended a victim awareness course.
