AN ASYLUM seeker, who allegedly lied about being a lesbian, yesterday won a court battle to stay in the United Kingdom.
A judge said that Carol Ajoh, a Jamaican national, had made an 'entirely dishonest' asylum claim.
The 34-year-old said she was a lesbian, then went on to get married and have three children.
The judge suggested she should not be deported because the Home Office was 'inexcusable and appalling' in its 22-month delay in dealing with her later plea to be allowed to remain on the basis of her second marriage.
TOTALLY BOGUS
The judge said Mrs. Ajoh, who brought three children from her first marriage to England, had admitted that her original asylum claim was totally bogus and she had 'told positive lies'.
Ajoh arrived in the U.K. in 1999 on a six-month visitor's visa and began a computer course in Brixton. In 2001, as her student visa ended, she claimed she was 'purely a lesbian' and said she feared persecution over her sexuality if she returned to Jamaica.
