Keno Forbes, 35, who operated under the street name “Blood”, was convicted of 11 counts of supplying Class A drugs on a housing estate in Islington, north London, in 2011.
The judges’ decision means Forbes will be able to stay in the UK indefinitely.
He would commute from Stevenage, Herts, to deal drugs on a daily basis in the 1960s-built Bemerton Estate in Islington.
Forbes was jailed for three years at Blackfriars Crown Court and handed a 10 year anti-social behaviour order which prevented him from entering the borough of Islington.
Forbes’s lawyers lodged an appeal under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights - which sets out the right to “private and family life” - and said removing him would damage his relationship with his wife and children.
The drug dealer won his case at the immigration and asylum tribunal and the Home Office lodged an appeal, claiming the court had failed to give adequate reasons why it ruled Forbes was in a “subsisting relationship” with his wife.
The Home Office also claimed the court was wrong to say that Forbes’ relationship with his children outweighed the public interest in him being removed from Britain.
But an appeal heard by Mr Justice McCloskey, the president of the Immigration and Asylum Chamber Upper Tribunal, upheld the earlier decision.
In his ruling, Mr Justice McCloskey said the lower court had said it was a “borderline case” but the balance “swung narrowly in favour” of Forbes and his family.
Forbes had been convicted of two previous offences of possessing Class A drugs in 2009, when he was given community orders.
Telegraph
Why not deport the whole family? Didnt the wife know what he is doing. In all probability she did and so she becomes an accomplice in crime. Funnily the court looked at his family conveniences while his actions would have inconvenienced several families. Agree with the opening line of the thread.
As usual in this world..... there is a woman behind him ..... who saved him ...
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