An immigrant is to be deported from the UK for the fifth time after changing his name to avoid being stopped at the border.
Christopher David, 45, has made it past UK Border Force illegally at least four times since his first arrival in 2002 under a variety of aliases, racking up more than 41 convictions while in the country.
When he was arrested again last month at his house in Bolton, Greater Manchester, David told investigators: “This is your government wasting money. I’ll be back, back and forth, back and forth.”
Inquiries revealed he has 41 convictions in Britain for offences including dangerous driving, possession of crack cocaine and shoplifting.
Bolton Crown Court heard that the Czech citizen had been known by “various aliases over the last 20 years” and was last deported in July.
Changed name for new travel documents
The factory worker arrived back in the UK in September after changing his name to Kristian David to obtain new travel documents.
He flew in from Prague to Manchester before moving into a house in the Deane area of Bolton, where his family resides legally.
He remained there for two months before being detained on Nov 20.
Prosecutor Hunter Gray said at the hearing: “He has continuously proven his presence in the country is not conducive to the public good.”
David had been jailed for 10 months last year for identical immigration offences. He is expected to serve eight of the 16 months of his latest sentence at Birmingham Prison before being sent back to the Czech Republic.
It is not known if any extra security measures will be put in place to prevent him from returning.
‘He has not relied on people smugglers’
Holly Nelson, David’s defence counsel, said that David had on one occasion come into the UK legally under freedom of movement laws when both countries were members of the European Union.
She said: “He has not relied on people smugglers and so has not helped to fund organised crime in coming to the UK. It is not that he has been on a raft across the channel or on the back of a lorry, for example.”
The defence also emphasised that David had tried to build a proper life in the UK with his wife, four children and two grandchildren.
However, when sentencing David, Judge Timothy Clayson said: “This is a person who has quite simply decided that come what may he will flout the relevant immigration official’s decisions as he has said he would continue to do in the future. There is no remorse.”
David admitted charges under the Immigration Act 1971 of knowingly entering the UK in breach of a deportation order and avoiding enforcement action by deceptive means and was jailed for 16 months.
“There is a clear and substantial public interest in the expulsion from this country of foreign nationals whose presence in this country is not conducive for the public good and seek to be here in breach of immigration decisions,” Judge Clayson said.
