Nusret Bora asylum seeker tragedy
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2013 1:46 pm
Mrs Bora, from Tunbridge Wells in Kent, married Nusret in Turkey in 2003, but he suffered physical and mental injuries in an attack in the country in October 2011.
She wanted to bring him to the UK to give him a better chance of recovery but new Home Office rules, which came into effect in July 2012, meant he was no longer eligible.
An appeal tribunal found the Home Office had acted disproportionally and affected the couple's right to a family life, and allowed the appeal on human rights grounds.
BBC South East was later told that Mr Bora was jailed in 1986 for killing someone.
The tragedy is that the wife genuinely had no knowledge of her husband's crime, the murder of a mother and her 4 year old child.
She wanted to bring him to the UK to give him a better chance of recovery but new Home Office rules, which came into effect in July 2012, meant he was no longer eligible.
An appeal tribunal found the Home Office had acted disproportionally and affected the couple's right to a family life, and allowed the appeal on human rights grounds.
BBC South East was later told that Mr Bora was jailed in 1986 for killing someone.
The tragedy is that the wife genuinely had no knowledge of her husband's crime, the murder of a mother and her 4 year old child.