A convicted burglar who cannot be deported from the UK because of his asylum status has shown off a new personalised number plate on his £80,000 Mercedes. Dorian Puka, 28, filmed himself peeling off the new number plate on his high-end vehicle in a video uploaded to TikTok, as he prepares for what could be a lengthy stay in the UK while he awaits the outcome of an asylum claim. The Albanian, who also shared videos of the car travelling through London onto the M25, was jailed for nine months in 2016 and deported the following year for attempting to break into a property while its owner was on holiday.
Within a year, he returned to the UK and carried out a spate of burglaries in London. For these, he was eventually caught and jailed for three-and-a-half years before being deported again in 2020. The 28-year-old then appeared to only briefly return to Albania before travelling through northwestern Europe and re-entering Britain in December 2020.
Upon his return five years ago, Puka submitted an asylum claim and has been on immigration bail with an electronic tag since last year, The Telegraph reports, while he awaits a decision from an asylum tribunal.
Despite his criminal record and previous deportations, the Home Office is powerless to remove him until the asylum application has been processed – something that could take months or even years, given the recent state of the appeals backlog.
The migrant’s source of funding is unknown, but he has posted photos and videos of several expensive cars on Instagram and TikTok, including a £300,000 Ferrari, alongside dozens of Rolex watches.
He has also reportedly been living in a £250,000 two-bed terraced flat in Hounslow, west London.
“Welcome to Labour’s Britain, where convicted burglars cruise in flash cars, post Rolex selfies on TikTok, and laugh in the face of the law while the Home Office sits there chewing its pen,” shadow home secretary Chris Philp said.
“This Albanian thug has been jailed, deported, snuck back in, and is now mocking the authorities online, waving his asylum claim like a VIP pass. And yet, somehow, he hasn’t been deported.
“This is exactly why the Conservatives have put forward our Deportation Bill. This would restore control of our borders, bring sanity back to the asylum system, and remove every single illegal immigrant or foreign national offender. And if the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) stands between Britain and its borders, we will leave.”
The Bill, unveiled by the Tories in May in an attempt to regain control of the narrative after years of record-high net migration under consecutive administrations, includes an annual cap on migrant numbers and the disapplication of the Human Rights Act for foreign criminals, barring them from making spurious human rights claims.
A spokesperson for the Home Office said: “Foreign nationals who commit crimes should be in no doubt that the law will be enforced. Mr Puka has been deported by the UK before. It is UK law that we cannot deport individuals where there are claims or representations still awaiting decision.
“We have already begun delivering a major surge in immigration enforcement and returns activity to remove people with no right to be in the UK, with 30,000 returned since the new government came into power.”