Despite being informed last year that he would be deported after his third conviction, an asylum seeker has been imprisoned for criminal damage for the fifth time in two years.
Iranian Farhad Hosnavi, 27, attacked a police station twice and an asylum hotel three times after entering the UK illegally in a tiny boat.
Within hours of being freed from prison, one offense occurred.
Despite Hosnavi’s declaration that he is “begging the Home Office to take him back to Germany,” where he previously had settled status, the absurd situation nevertheless developed.
According to his attorney, he is committing the crimes because he wants to go to jail because he no longer has a place to live. The crimes have cost over £10,000 in damages, not including court time and prison expenses.
Because he was “deemed a danger to the public,” magistrates disregarded the assumption that his sentence would be deferred during his most recent court appearance in Norwich yesterday and imprisoned him for eight weeks.
The revolving door of justice started in January 2024 when Hosnavi was discovered with a knife and expelled from a Holiday Inn Express Hotel that was then being used as an asylum.
He was sentenced to a brief jail sentence after returning there in April of that year and causing damage to the property.
He returned to the hotel a month after his parole and broke several windows.
On December 3, the day he was released from prison after serving his second 16-week sentence, he used rocks to destroy 14 windows at the same hotel while yelling, “F**k the police.”
Hosnavi was sentenced to a 12-month prison sentence in May of last year after the magistrates court heard that he had caused £5,000 in damage and that employees no longer felt safe due to the frequent attacks.
District Judge Andrew Shaw informed the defendant that the punishment would automatically result in deportation, but he also stated that the Home Office had the final say.
The judge stated that Hosnavi had “expressed a desire to return to Germany” despite the fact that there were “good political and human rights reasons” why he could not be transported to certain nations.
But after serving his sentence, he was not deported, and on April 28 of this year, he went to the Bethel Street police station and broke the main entry doors.
He was sentenced to eight weeks as a result, and he was freed on May 26—four days before he went back to the police station and shattered the doors once more.
The damage from the two attacks was £5,000.
Yesterday, Hosnavi acknowledged to the most recent criminal damage offense and received the most recent prison sentence.
Sarah Fiddy, the prosecutor, informed the court that there were aggravating factors, such as the fact that it was committed while under license and the fact that comparable events had previously occurred.
“He is frustrated by the lack of accommodation and homelessness,” stated Julie Adams, who was defending.
“He just wants to return to prison; he had no intention of harming anyone.”
She said that the Home Office was currently reviewing Hosnavi’s asylum application.
“Farhad Hosnavi is subject to deportation action,” a representative for the Home Office stated. We’ll exert every effort to keep foreign offenders off British territory. Deportations of foreign national offenders are up 32%, with more than 8,700 deported since government came into power.
“Strict conditions and electronic tagging are used when a foreign criminal cannot be removed right away. An individual will be imprisoned if these are violated.
