UK JUDGE LOSES JOB OVER NIGERIAN WOMAN!

Well, some of us in the know are quite familiar with Richard McKee at the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal. During the visa appeal period, Nigerians appealing visa refusals from abroad always pray that their cases are transferred or assigned to Richard McKee. So many Nigerians who won their cases on appeal are now in the UK through the magnanimity of McKee. The man was quite liberal and pro-immigration so to say. With due respect, his judgement, either way, always appear sound and backed with good authorities. That is a story for another day anyway. Read on please:


A judge accused of going soft on foreign criminals has stepped down after admitting handing cash to an illegal immigrant who had lived in his home.

Richard McKee, 65, was a senior judge at the country’s highest immigration and asylum court when he gave money to the woman, who is 26 years his junior, while she was living here illegally.

The Nigerian woman, Fatima Umar, 39, was found to have overstayed her visa after she was arrested at Mr McKee’s house after a disagreement.

She now faces being deported.

Mr McKee, who has previously been accused of ruling far more often than other judges in favour of those seeking to avoid deportation, has been allowed to retire on a pension of around £50,000 a year without disciplinary action.

Police had been called to Mr McKee’s £460,000 flat in Kilburn, North West London, in the afternoon of January 28 after a report of a break-in.

Umar was arrested and charged with causing around £5,000 of criminal damage at the property and assaulting two police officers.

She is now serving two eight-week prison sentences.

When the judiciary was informed that Mr McKee had been providing financial support to an illegal immigrant he was allowed to retire without any penalty.

It is thought that Mr McKee had allowed the ‘pretty’ younger woman to live at his property on and off for the last few years. He has refused to comment on the nature of their relationship.

In 2011, Umar was sentenced to 14 weeks in jail after she assaulted the judge.

Mr McKee, a Cambridge graduate, worked for the Immigration Advisory Service as a barrister in the 1990s, bringing appeals for immigrants and asylum seekers, before he started adjudicating on cases in 2000.

An analysis of his judgments in 2012 found that in the 13 cases he heard in the previous year, he ruled in favour of foreign criminals wanting to avoid deportation on 11 occasions.

At the same time another judge ruled against all nine criminals whose cases he heard.

A spokesman for the Judiciary said: ‘On 31 January 2014 it was brought to the Chamber President’s attention that Upper Tribunal Judge McKee was providing financial support to a person who was alleged to be an immigration offender.

‘This was put to Mr McKee who then retired with effect from 4 February.’ He said there would not be a review of Mr McKee’s rulings as ‘this is a personal conduct matter’.

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