A Jamaican criminal with ‘no regard for the law’ was caught dealing drugs just three days after he won an asylum case to stay in the UK, a tribunal has heard.

Ex-gang member Jevaughn Williams, 28, was still involved in a life of crime while he was fighting a legal battle for permission to stay in Britain.

An asylum judge revoked his deportation order – but three days later he was caught dealing cannabis. He now faces deportation to Jamaica.

Williams has a long list of criminal convictions dating back to when he was a teenager in 2012, including drug possession, voyeurism and possession of a shotgun.

The tribunal found the London-based criminal was ‘blasé’ about the sexual offences he had committed against women.

It heard he was dealing cannabis while the decision was being made whether to deport him, and continued to do so after he was allowed to stay.

Williams came to the UK with his mother in August 2001 – they overstayed their limited leave to enter and remained without leave until they were granted Indefinite Leave to Remain in December 2008.

His offending starting in 2012 with possession of a prohibited weapon, a sawn-off shotgun. 

Williams was sentenced to two years and 12 months’ detention the next year after he was caught in possession of a knife in a public place.

The Home Office decided to deport him in 2014 – he appealed against this, but this was refused and the deportation order was made.

He was cautioned in 2015 for possession of Class A drugs, then almost five years later he was handed a community order after being convicted of burglary.

The Home Office agreed to reconsider its decision to deport Williams after he appealed against the deportation order in 2017.

It refused Williams’s claim, and he then made a second appeal which was dismissed in 2020.

Permission to appeal again was refused and an attempt was made to remove him in 2021, but this was unsuccessful after his solicitors took action against this on his behalf.

In 2023, he was given a 16 month prison sentence, suspended for 19 months, for voyeurism and possession of cannabis with intent to supply.

It was heard that ‘he had photographed different women in states of undress when he was delivering drugs to his customers’.

In the same year, a First-Tier tribunal judge revoked his deportation order, saying that he was ‘socially and culturally integrated into the UK’ and it would be against the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) to deport him.

The First-Tier tribunal judge said that they were satisfied Williams ‘genuinely regrets his past criminal misdoings and wishes to work and be a useful member of society’, but added that ‘if he offends again, it is unlikely that the matters which have saved him on this occasion will save him again’.

Williams was convicted of supplying cannabis in 2024, which he received a six month prison sentence for.

Later the same year, he was convicted for failing to comply with a requirement of a Sex Offenders Notice.

His case was brought to the the Upper Tribunal of the Immigration and Asylum Chamber after the Home Office appealed the decision to allow Williams to stay in the UK.

Williams’s appeal against deportation was subsequently re-heard after it was found that the First-Tier tribunal judge had not made a finding on the likelihood of Williams re-offending.

Upper Tribunal Judge Mark Blundell said: ‘In our judgement, the signal feature of [Williams]’s case is that he has no regard whatsoever for the law.

‘In 2023, he offended a month after he had been given a suspended sentence.

‘He has offended when he was subject to deportation action.

‘Also in 2023, he offended whilst his appeal was afoot.

‘Judge Bennett gave him a warning that even the slightest offending might tip the scales against him.

‘That warning was issued on 6 November 2023.

‘Three days later, [Williams] was found to have been dealing cannabis up to and including 9 November 2023.’

The Upper Tribunal found that he had been a member of a gang in Hackney when he first began offending.

It was told that there was a ‘medium’ risk of serious re-offending in the next two years, which included a medium risk of ‘serious harm to children and the public’.

Williams told the tribunal that ‘he was prevented from working and accessing public funds, as a result of which ‘he had to find a means to survive which is why he got involved in dealing drugs’.

The tribunal found that he had a ‘lack of motivation to change his lifestyle’ which contributed to ‘an imminent risk to re-offend or cause serious harm’.

It also said that he was ‘surprisingly blasé about his sexual offending’ when giving evidence.

The judge added: ‘It is commonplace in appeals of this nature for offending behaviour to come to an end, as the sword of deportation hangs over the head of the appellant.

‘Not so in this case. [Williams] set about supplying cannabis to order whilst his appeal was afoot.

‘His contempt for the law is unfortunately quite apparent.

‘[Williams] was not in need of money to survive, and we reject that suggestion entirely.

‘He was living with his mother throughout and could depend on her for food and accommodation.

‘What he wanted was spending cash, and he knew that he could obtain that by dealing drugs.’

The Upper Tier Tribunal re-made the decision over Williams’ appeal and dismissed it, meaning he now faces deportation.

Judge Blundell said: ‘It is evidently in the interests of the United Kingdom that [Williams] is deported to Jamaica, where he will likely commit further criminal offences in order to counter the obstacles he will inevitably face, rather than committing further offences in the United Kingdom.’