https://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2016/05/21/uk-muslim-killer-and-drug-dealer-fakes-refugee-status-gets-house-and-handouts-and-wins-legal-right-to-remain/"One-legged Albanian murderer who posed as a Kosovan refugee to gain UK citizenship and got a four-bed house and £2k-a-month benefits while dealing cocaine wins legal aid to fight to stay here… Is this proof Britain has lost its marbles?
Double killer Saliman Barci, 41, gets legal aid fighting extradition from UK
Fighting request to be returned to Albania to serve 25-year prison sentence
Estranged Albanian wife claims he confessed to her on night of the killings
By Stephen Wright In Albania For The Daily Mail
Published: 22:00, 20 May 2016 |
A one-legged Albanian double killer has been granted legal aid to fight extradition from Britain — even though he has allegedly confessed to the murders, it emerged last night.
Saliman Barci, 41, claims he is innocent and is using human rights laws in a desperate bid to avoid being sent back to his homeland, where he has been convicted of murdering two men.
He has spent nearly a year in custody at an immigration removal centre battling a request to be returned to the poverty-stricken country to serve a 25-year sentence.
But last night, his taxpayer-funded extradition battle descended into farce after his estranged Albanian wife said he had confessed to her on the night of the killings.
Double killer: Albanian Saliman Barci has been granted legal aid to fight an extradition request for him to return to his native country to serve a 25-year prison sentence
Double killer: Albanian Saliman Barci has been granted legal aid to fight an extradition request for him to return to his native country to serve a 25-year prison sentence.
And, in further revelations, she claimed he had committed other murders in Albania and is one of the most feared men among his fellow countrymen living in the UK, where he has enjoyed an enviable lifestyle on benefits.
The Mail can also reveal today that according to his wife:
The couple were smuggled into the UK in a van from Calais. They posed as Kosovan refugees to gain British citizenship and have lived rent free in a £560-a-month lavishly furnished four-bedroom housing association house.
Barci has enjoyed nearly £2,000 a month in benefits while previously making huge sums from selling cocaine in London. The average wage in Albania is £250 a month.
He has never worked and has an NHS prosthetic leg to replace the wooden one he had in Albania.
He has been awarded legal aid to fight extradition, but his already hefty defence costs could soar if the legal battle ends up at the European Court of Human Rights. He always carried a knife and kept a pistol at his West London home.
It was at an extradition hearing in London earlier this month that details of Barci’s incredible case first emerged. Westminster magistrates’ court heard that in 2009 he was convicted in his absence of murdering the two men in the city of Burrel, in northern Albania, in July 1997.
According to Albanian court papers, a trio of gangsters carried out a robbery worth six million Lek (about £34,000), but Barci wanted to keep all the money and shot his friends after drinking and watching a ‘violent and bloody’ movie with them. But he escaped prosecution and fled to the UK in 2002, arriving in the UK via Calais, later claiming asylum as a Kosovan refugee before eventually gaining British citizenship."
"Mrs Barci said her husband claimed £220 disability allowance per month, £320 income support per fortnight, £100 a week in child tax credits and £30 per week child benefit.
On top of this, she said, he received ‘lots of money’ from drugs deals."
