Human rights news
A Bangladeshi woman who tried to kill her 8 months old child has been allowed to stay in the country because a tribunal ruled deporting her and keeping her away from the child she tried to kill will be
disproportionate.The woman who can not be named because it would reveal the identity of the child came into the UK in 2007.She got married to her cousin in an arranged marriage.When the marriage was having continuous problems ,the husband decided to send her back to Banglasdesh but took out a court order banning her from taking the daughter out of the country.The woman told family and friends if she can't have her daughter no one else will.She promised to kill herself and kill the child.
The husband returned home one day to find her stabbing the child with a Knife,the Judge was told the child would have died if the 1.6in stab had not hit one of her ribs! Afterwards the woman asked her husband: ‘Why couldn’t you come in later? Then I could have finished her off?’, the court heard.
She was jailed for 5 years with the Judge accepting she was in an ‘overpowering situation’ and was facing ‘huge emotional turmoil’
In July 2011, while still behind bars, she was granted access to her daughter, by then nearly three years old, by the Family Courts.
That ruling was made by Mr Justice Mostyn, the same judge who, sitting in the Court of Protection, allowed doctors to sedate a pregnant woman to perform a caesarean without her consent.
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| Controversial: The decision was made by Mr Justice Mostyn |
The child was then a ward of the court – and her mother was allowed to see her three times a year for one hour under strict supervision.
He wrote that it was ‘positively in the interests of this little girl for her to see her mother’.
He wrote: ‘From these small beginnings, it may well be that, as time progresses, something more meaningful can be built up, although that will inevitably be a difficult progress given the nature of the crime which was committed by the mother.’
When the mother was released from prison in December 2011 she was informed by the Home Office that she faced deportation because of the horrific attack.
A tribunal ruled in her favour in March 2013 on the basis of Article 8, saying removal from Britain would ‘not be proportionate’.
Judge Christopher Buckwell said it would be a ‘very cruel decision indeed’ for both the mother and her daughter to ‘effectively end contact’ between them.
A Home Office spokesman said: ‘We are disappointed and surprised with this verdict and we have applied to the Court of Appeal for the right to challenge it.
‘Those who come to the UK must abide by our laws. We will take all necessary steps to deport foreign criminals and have introduced tough new rules to protect the public from those who try to stay here through abuse of the Human Rights Act.
‘Our Immigration Bill will clarify our policy to the courts, that foreign criminals should ordinarily be deported despite their claim to a family life.’
A truly incredible story!