A Nigerian romance fraudster, Emmanuel Jack, who tricked women into paying him almost £200,000 has been spared deportation after a UK judge said the healthcare system in his native Nigeria could not meet the medical needs of his wife and children, Daily Mail reports Friday.
Jack, 35, was reportedly jailed for three years in 2014 after he posed as an architect on dating websites and tricked six vulnerable women into paying him £186,000.
In 2022, the Home Office ruled that he should be sent back to Nigeria, the country he left with his parents when he was 10, which prompted him to mount a legal bid to remain in the UK.
A London-based immigration and asylum tribunal, presided over by judges Victor Rae-Reeves and Luke Bulpitt, ruled in Jack’s favour, stating that his deportation would be unduly harsh on his British wife and children, who suffer from complex medical issues and are reliant on his care.
Jack’s wife reportedly suffers from medical issues arising from pregnancy, while his 18-month-old son, born prematurely, has severe developmental problems requiring close supervision and specialist care.
In addition, the tribunal was reportedly told that Jack’s six-year-old daughter suffers from eyesight problems, and his 16-year-old daughter from a previous relationship, also relies on his care and support.
The daughter reportedly outlined the “huge role” Jack plays in her life in a letter, where she suggested “the family would fall apart without him.”
The family’s priest also stated that deportation would have a “deleterious effect on family life”, “would be disastrous” and “deportation would tear apart a loving family.’
In response, the judges were quoted as saying, “We have found that [the wife and two children] are all receiving long-term care for acute medical conditions.
“For each of them, that care involves regular review from consultants, detailed ongoing investigations and a significant treatment regime. Moving to Nigeria would significantly disrupt that care, frustrate ongoing investigations and end the consistency of care that they have each been receiving to date.”
They continued, “We consider that even if treatment is available, it is considerably harder to get treatment for all three of them in the same location. Even so, we consider that it would be unduly harsh for [them] to each leave their regular consultants and multidisciplinary teams who know them and their conditions well, to test the vagaries of the Nigerian health system.
“In particular we have found that there are ongoing and serious investigations in relation to [Mr Jack’s son] and, even if care for him is available in Nigeria, it is unlikely to be the bespoke multidisciplinary attention he currently benefits from.”
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