An Albanian criminal has hosted a champagne-soaked celebration to mark a decade of remaining in Britain despite being ordered to leave.
Dorian Puka, 29, who has served two prison sentences for burglary and been removed from the country twice before smuggling himself back in, commemorated the milestone with a lavish bash at a London nightclub, complete with burlesque performers and expensive champagne.
Video footage showed the convicted thief partying with a person with dwarfism, performing karaoke and puffing on a shisha pipe during Wednesday evening's revelries.
Puka secured VIP access at Cirque le Soir, a trendy venue popular with Hollywood stars, then shared clips of the evening on Instagram.
Over the last 12 months, Puka has brazenly mocked immigration officials on social media by flaunting his opulent lifestyle, posing with half a dozen Rolex timepieces and premium supercars including Ferraris and a 2022 Lamborghini URUS V8 valued at £180,000.
Immigration officials have conceded they're unable to expel Puka once more until tribunals resolve his pending asylum request, though they insisted foreign offenders should harbour "no doubt" about enforcement action.
Puka's criminal record in Britain began on 17 February 2015 when officers arrested him for raiding a property in Twickenham, south-west London, during the owner's French holiday. The victim watched the break-in unfold through a webcam feed and alerted authorities.
He served nine months behind bars and consented to deportation following his release. Despite this, he managed to slip past frontier security within a year and launched a fresh burglary campaign across London's suburbs.
Officers in civilian dress finally nabbed Puka during patrols in Surbiton, another south-west London neighbourhood, after locals reported a surge in property crimes. He was sporting a valuable timepiece taken during a raid.
Albanian authorities received him back in March 2020 after he completed a three-and-a-half-year custodial sentence.
During his incarceration, Puka achieved infamy by obtaining a contraband smartphone to upload Instagram selfies from inside his cell. One photograph showed him alongside a crime boss imprisoned for 12 years on cocaine distribution and money laundering convictions.
After spending months in Albania, he crossed through Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands before slipping past British border security in December 2020, Instagram posts suggest.
Threatened with removal, he filed for asylum protection and has lived under immigration bail conditions with an electronic monitoring device fitted since 2023 while tribunals review his case.
A Home Office spokesman said: "This Government will not allow foreign criminals and illegal migrants to exploit our laws, which is why we are reforming human rights laws and replacing the broken appeals system, allowing us to scale up deportations.
"The Home Secretary announced the most sweeping reforms to tackle illegal migration in modern times, which will make Britain a less attractive destination for illegal migrants and will make it easier to remove and deport them."
