Richard Blackwood a Drug dealer who left wife beats deportation due to 'family rights'

A drug dealer who served five years in prison and left his wife and children for another woman has been allowed to stay in Britain because of his right to family life.

Jamaican Richard Blackwood, 36, was jailed for five years for dealing cocaine and heroin to undercover police in Sussex in 2007. But he fought off an attempt to deport him because his family’s human rights were ‘not being respected’.

An immigration appeal found an earlier tribunal had not properly considered the detrimental effect deporting him would have on his mistress and their child. Read More