In this post and the next one we have two claims for compensation, both of which make TheEye furious. Although they are for vastly different scenarios and vastly different amounts of money they make the hackles rise for exactly the same reason….they are taking the piss.

The first random scumbag of this parish is one Fridoon Sadiqi, a failed asylum seeker who entered the country using a fake passport. He is suing the Government for £150,000 claiming his detention caused him depression.

We learn: Fridoon Sadiqi says he started having mental health problems, including post traumatic stress disorder, after he was held for three weeks while his case was investigated.

Using false documents, he entered the country from Afghanistan in 1999, but later claimed he was fleeing persecution from the then ruling Taliban regime. He argues that a civil service re-prioritising scheme in January 2001 had the effect of ‘putting on hold’ old applications and he was forced to wait five years (paid for by us, doubtless) to hear whether he could stay in the UK. Sadiqi was eventually told his asylum application had been refused after he was interviewed by immigration officers in March 2004.

In June 2004 an appeal was dismissed by an adjudicator who deemed he was no longer at risk even though he accepted that he had been persecuted by the Taliban. He applied for discretionary leave to remain in the UK in October that year, but permission to appeal was refused by the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal a month later.

Sadiqi was held at an immigration detention centre for three weeks (what is the running total for our bill by this point do we think, eh? Great big piles of Lots) while a further appeal was being held. When released he had to regularly report to a police station to confirm his whereabouts. The Home Office rejected his application for leave to remain in November 2005, stating that he could apply for clearance once back in Afghanistan. Since then he has remained in the UK while seeking a judicial review to remain in the country.”

Luckily he lives in a flat above a Chinese restaurant Canley, Coventry which means that he doesn’t have far to go for a taxpayer-funded takeaway when that craving for crispy duck gets unbearable.

So what does our nice friendly illegal immigrant do now then, eh? He sits back and waits for a big payday from Her Majestys Government.