The Home Office is accused of 'celebrating failure' as it vows to close 150 asylum hotels by May

Convicted sex offender has offered to pay for his return to his native Iraq. But the Home Office has failed to put him on a plane. He has been stuck in Britain for three years after being convicted of a sex crime. The convicted sex offender offered to fly back to Iraq but has been refused a flight.

Judge rules the 31-year-old jailed for exposing himself can stay as his ‘risky behaviour’ would put him in danger if he was sent home. Judge rules that his behaviour could put him at risk of ‘mob violence’ in Afghanistan.

Two-thirds of applicants who were refused asylum were not recorded as having left the UK in the decade from 2011, analysis of Home Office data shows. Over half of appeals against Home Office asylum decisions are successful - as sex offender allowed to stay. Data also shows that over half of asylum appeals are successful.

Sakhile boarded a plane in 2006 in Zimbabwe bound for Britain. She left her sons, then aged 10 and seven, with her parents. Her plan was to claim asylum when she arrived in the UK and then her sons would join her. But that isn't how it turned out. Over half of appeals against asylum decisions are successful.

Two-thirds of applicants who were refused asylum were not recorded as having left the UK in the decade from 2011, analysis of Home Office data shows. More than half of appeals against asylum decisions successful, according to Home Office figures. Sex offender allowed to stay in UK - as more than half appeals against decisions successful.

Home Office accused of 'celebrating failure' as it vows to close 150 asylum hotels by May. Home Secretary James Cleverly says government will "keep going until the last hotel is closed" - but Labour says 250 still remain in use. Home Office says it will close the last asylum hotel by May, but Labour say 250 still use it.