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Macharia's five-year Home Office ‘nightmare’ is finally over
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A GAY rugby player the Home Office tried to deport to Kenya despite fears he would be persecuted because of his sexuality has won a five-battle for his right to stay in Britain.
Ken Macharia, of the Bristol Bisons Rugby Football Club, first came to Britain in 2009 as a student and stayed in the country as a qualified mechanical engineer by renewing his work permits.
Fearing the prospect of returning to Kenya, where being homosexual is not a criminal offence but the country’s penal code, which it inherited from British colonial rule, does criminalise gay sex, Macharia decided to apply for asylum.
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