A WIFE killer has dodged deportation by becoming a Christian, The Sun on Sunday can reveal — in a case echoing that of Abdul Ezedi.
The Bangladeshi man, who cannot be named, was convicted of murdering his British wife in 2008 and jailed for life.
He was refused asylum in 2018, but won an appeal in 2022 as the judge said he was at risk due to his conversion.
Chemical attack fugitive Ezedi arrived illegally in the UK in 2016.
He was twice refused asylum, having been convicted of sex offences.
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His third asylum claim was successful after a priest vouched for his conversion and said he was “wholly committed” to his new religion.
In another case, a “Christian convert” Moroccan, 23, lost his appeal for asylum.
But having told Judge Rebecca Chapman he was due to be baptised, she said: “He may wish to seek legal advice under the auspices of legal aid and could make representations in support of a fresh asylum claim.”
Last month, an Iranian paedophile was given a fresh chance to appeal after saying he had become a Christian.
A judge had ruled at his initial hearing he had failed to “repent of his wrongdoing” which “the Christian faith would surely require for a genuine conversion”.
But he was granted another appeal because the decision should be “objective and evidence-based” and “should not lapse into unhelpful speculation regarding the workings of an appellant’s conscience”.
Some 20 asylum seekers at Wethersfield, in Essex, were baptised last week.
A migrant in the idyllic vilage, close to where hundreds of asylum seekers are housed, said: “Most of the reasons on the claims are Christian conversion.”