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An Albanian asylum seeker who arrived in Britain in a rubber boat is facing deportation after being jailed for 13 months for leading police on a terrifying 110mph chase.
Lirdi Ruta, 19, collided with another car and ran several red lights as he tried to evade officers for 33 miles.
The teenager, who did not have a driving licence or insurance, took off when police tried to stop him at Ashley Heath near Bournemouth on August 22 last year because he had cannabis on him.
He raced through the towns of Verwood, Wimborne and Poole before he was finally stopped on the A338 near to where the chase started.
Bournemouth Crown Court heard Ruta came to the UK in a dinghy in 2022 and lived in Bournemouth for a while before moving to Cambridge. His asylum status was said to be 'unclear'. MailOnline has contacted the Home Office for comment.
Lirdi Ruta, 19, collided with another car and ran several red lights as he tried to evade officers for 33 miles
Tim Dracass, defending, said Ruta was 'ambivalent whether he stays here or returns to Albania'.
The Home Secretary has a duty to make a deportation order in respect of non-British or Irish citizens who have been convicted of an offence in the UK and sentenced to at least 12 months' imprisonment, unless certain exceptions apply.
Ruta pleaded guilty to dangerous driving, driving without a licence or insurance and possession of a Class B drug.
