# Indian migrant jailed for stealing vulnerable grandmother’s gold chain at bus stop can remain in the UK as judge says it would be ‘unduly harsh’

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/indian-migrant-jailed-for-stealing-vulnerable-grandmothers-gold-chain-at-bus-stop-can-remain-in-the-uk-as-judge-says-it-would-be-unduly-harsh/
- Published: 2026-08-28T10:20:08+00:00
- Updated: 2026-08-28T10:30:11+00:00
- Original publisher: Daily Mail (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16086923/Indian-migrant-jailed-stealing-grandmothers-chain-remain-UK.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
- Topics: Americas, Asia, UK, World

## Key points

- Tribunal blocks deportation of jailed robbery offender.
- Judge cites wife’s health and family threats.
- Decision followed a human-rights appeal.

## Summary

An Indian national, identified only as AB, has won an appeal against deportation from the UK despite being jailed for robberies targeting two vulnerable women, including a grandmother at a bus stop. An Upper Tribunal judge ruled that removing him would be “unduly harsh” for his British wife and their two children, giving priority to the family’s circumstances despite recognising a strong public interest in deporting serious offenders.

AB, 30, received concurrent five-year prison sentences for the 2019 robberies, after a previous suspended sentence for assault. The tribunal heard that his wife has inflammatory arthritis and mental health difficulties, and that both families had made alleged honour-based threats after their marriage and his conversion to Islam; the judge concluded it would be unsafe for the family to relocate to India. AB came to Britain as a child, later overstayed a visa, married in 2017 and appealed the deportation order on human-rights grounds.

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