An illegal immigrant deported from the UK twice who returned and tried to flee from police when stopped has been jailed.
Carlisle Crown Court heard 31-year-old Dilaver Domi, an Albanian national, had made repeated attempts to enter and then remain in the UK during the past five years.
Domi first arrived illegally while hidden in an HGV during January 2019. In October that year he was arrested for cannabis production in Middlesbrough, and later jailed.
In May 2020, he was deported to Albania. Domi had been made the subject of a deportation order which required him to leave the UK and banned him from returning.
But in November 2021, Domi entered a UK control zone in northern France while concealed in another lorry — a breach of that order — and removed.
In early 2022 he was back in the UK. Later that year he was handed another lengthy prison sentence for cannabis production, and then deported for a second time.
Yet he refused to stay away, and on May 1 this year was travelling in a car with another Albanian man near Penrith.
“He was stopped by the police at 3.30pm on the A6 southbound near Clifton,” prosecutor Gerard Rogerson told Carlisle Crown Court. “Both men fled from the police, Mr Domi later saying he had done so because he did not want to be deported.
“They fled across fields, heading towards the West Coast Main Line but they were stopped and arrested.
“In interview Mr Domi said he had travelled across Europe, that he has illegally entered the UK two weeks earlier, once again on the back of an HGV. He had taken a convoluted route across Europe to avoid detection.
“He admitted he was fully aware of the deportation order. He said he was working in construction and living in the Midlands and Gloucester areas, and that he was travelling to the Glasgow area to discuss alternative employment.
Domi admitted breach of a deportation order, and was jailed for a total of 20 months.
“You have no right to be in this country,” the sentencing judge, His Honour Nicholas Barker, told Domi, “and you should have got the message by now having been locked up twice and deported twice.
“Your presence here is not desirable. You come to the UK, you commit crimes and you ignore our immigration policies.”
Judge Barker observed the defendant, of no fixed address, would no doubt remain in prison until he was deported.
“If you illegally enter this country again you will receive longer and longer sentences,” added the judge.
