Ex soldier fights to stay in the UK

As far as im concerned hes got more right to live in Britain than i have, i'm British, but he has served and risked his life. Like people have said hes got a family that are British so this should be taken into consideration.

But this is the UK gov, so he will probs end up deported and actual threats to the UK will continue to be given shelter from their crimes abroad in the UK.
 
I don't understand the decision here. He served well for his time. I heard him interviewed this morning and he went guilty and was up before his CO because he wanted it out of the way. The guy in the fight lost a filling. I don't condone the fighting but it's one offence and a reasonably minor one, I think his service offsets it/

It does sound at the time as if he as having issues with alcohol but he served for 13 years, he has a wife and family here, it seems ridiculous to deport him and not to let him stay.

I do believe this should be a case by case decision and not everyone should get a free pass no matter what they have done but surely we can't just throw people out who have served well in numerous conflict zones for all that time because of one disciplinary offence (in which he waived his legal counsel and seems to have thought it would be over if he paid the fine which, as it was military, was much more tha he would have paid as a civvie).

I think this is rather shaming.
 
Since when did a criminal record matter? Not so long ago an illegal immigrant was involved in a hit and run killing a child. While on the run he fathered a child of his own, so after a very short stint in prison he couldn't be deported because it broke his human rights. Madness.
 
I punched a guy outside the pub a few years back, I'm not even remotely faced with the threat of deportation, yet this guy is told to **** off after nearly 15 years of risking his life for queen and country... it's madness!
 
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