Refugee who brought injured niece to UK illegally given leave to remain

Najat Ibrahim Ismail was jailed in 2017 and officials tried to deport him three times before judge's ruling in his favour

A man whom the Home Office repeatedly tried to deport after he brought his badly burned baby niece to the UK illegally for treatment has won his right to remain in Britain after a six-year battle.

Najat Ibrahim Ismail, 35, fled torture in Iraq and came to the UK in 2004. He and his British wife, Emma Ismail, have three children and live in Portsmouth.