Convicted drug dealer’s deportation case to be reheard after Home Office error

Olajiire Obafemi Shoyombo was unlawfully in the UK for more than eight years after arriving on a visitor visa in 2005, when he was three years old (Alamy/PA) -

A convicted drug dealer’s deportation case is to be reheard after the Home Office wrongly accepted he had been a lawful UK resident for most of his life.

Olajiire Obafemi Shoyombo, a Nigerian national, was jailed for 40 months in 2023 after being convicted at Nottingham Crown Court of two offences involving the supply of heroin and crack cocaine.