| PA News |
Wed,
7 May 1997
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| Title: Millionaire appeals to Straw over deportation order on 'son' | ||
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New Home Secretary Jack Straw has been urged to intervene in the case of a young Nepalese man threatened with deportation. Millionaire Richard Morley, who brought Jayaram Khadka, 20, to Britain almost seven years ago as a "debt of honour" to the boy's late father, appealed to Mr Straw to act before the case was due in the Court of Appeal on May 13. In a letter faxed to the Home Office, Mr Morley said: "We object to his decision on the grounds that it denied Jay and ourselves a fundamental right of family life under Article 8 of the European Convention of Human Rights. But Mr Morley said he would abide by any new decision by Mr Straw and would leave Britain with Jay if the deportation order was upheld. He said in the letter: "We would all accept the obligation to take permanent residence outside Britain should you decide to uphold your predecessors decision. "Accordingly, we can see no point in using valuable court time to decide an issue that essentially rests with the exercise of your own discretion." Jay Khadka was brought to Britain when he was 14 after Mr Morley returned to Nepal in 1990 on hearing of the death of the boy's policeman father Basu. Mr Morley said he had a debt of honour to look after because Basu had saved his life in 1984. Basu walked more than 60 miles over three days to seek help for Mr Morley after finding him sick and exhausted during a Himalayan trek. |