Kazm Saed, 26, has been jailed for 13 years for kidnapping an elderly couple - but begged to be sent back to Iraq because he is lonely in the UK. He will serve his sentence before any attempts to remove him from the UK
A kidnapper who forced an elderly couple to get him cash from an ATM at knifepoint has asked to be deported back to Iraq because he is so lonely in a British prison - but instead faces up to 13 years in jail at the taxpayers' expense.
Kazm Saed, 26, woke Graham Fuller and threatened to kill his wife Rachel with a dagger if the couple did not drive to a cashpoint on the Isle of Wight and give him £600.
The couple believed that if they don't acquiesce they would be murdered - and Mr Fuller, who is in his late eighties, suffered the humiliation of being naked when the assailant woke him at knifepoint.
After a week long trial at at the Isle of Wight Crown Court, Recorder Paul Garlick sentenced Saed to jail for 13 years and said the ordeal the Fullers were put through last May was particularly horrifying.
He was also convicted of stealing from a hospice and a knifepoinr robbery on another elderly man, Graham Deacon, demanding money and his bank card pin number.
Before being sentenced for his crimes, Saed's lawyer Russell Pyne told a judge his client felt isolated and lonely and wanted to be deported back to Iraq, even though he did not know if he would be safe if that happened.
Recorder Garlick said: 'It was made worse that you sat in the back seat with Mrs Fuller, with Mr Fuller knowing at any moment you could have used the knife on his wife. It's hard to imagine anything more serious.'
The Home Secretary has the power to make a deportation order against a foreign criminal under the Immigration Act - but Saed will first serve at least six-and-a-half years in prison for his crimes before he can be sent home.
But if he changes his mind and decides he wants to stay, it can be harder to remove him. In the past year there have been just five Iraqis forcibly deported by the Government to their home country.
Currently up to 70 per cent of foreign criminals who lodge deportation appeals do so under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, claiming it will be a breach of their rights to return them to their home nation for reasons such as they have children in the UK.
Latest figures, published in August, showed 10,882 foreign offenders have been released from prison but have avoided deportation. The total walking the streets has rocketed by 176 per cent since 2012, when it stood at under 4,000.
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Kazm Saed, 26, woke Graham Fuller as he slept naked in his secluded Isle of Wight cottage (pictured) and threatened to kill his wife Rachel with a dagger if the couple did not drive to a cash-point and turn over £600
The court heard Saed offered no reason for why he committed the offences, which he had denied throughout the trial, once the jury found him guilty.
