A resort migrant who fled to Britain after sexually assaulting a schoolgirl in Germany has misplaced his battle in opposition to being thrown overseas on human rights grounds.
Azizadeen Alsheikh Suliman – who left Syria after being shot within the foot – tried to kiss the 15-year-old after giving her hashish, then positioned his hand inside her underwear.
He later went on the run and crossed the Channel by boat whereas going through the specter of imprisonment for failing to abide by the suspended sentence imposed by a German court docket.
The restaurant employee gave a false spelling of his title and claimed asylum earlier than being given taxpayer-funded lodging at a resort in an upmarket Cheshire suburb, a court docket heard.
However final October the 31-year-old was recognized as a fugitive and he was held below a European Arrest Warrant – sparking fury from the native council, police and MP who complained of being stored ‘at nighttime’.
Suliman appeared in court docket final week the place he claimed a tribal feud in Syria which had spilled over into Germany meant his life can be in danger if he was despatched again there.
A decide right this moment rejected his excuses, paving the best way for his extradition – nonetheless Suliman was given seven days to lodge an attraction.
The case comes amid rising fears in regards to the UK’s porous borders and the dearth of checks on migrants’ backgrounds, with many allowed in regardless of convictions for severe crimes.
Azizadeen Alsheikh Suliman (pictured) smuggled himself throughout the English Channel after going through being locked up in Germany over the intercourse assault
Suliman had lived in Germany for seven years when he sexually assaulted a 15-year-old following an alcohol-fuelled evening out in Osnabrück
Suliman – who has been in custody since his arrest – appeared at Westminster Magistrates Courtroom right this moment sporting gray jail garments, aided by an Arabic interpreter.
District Choose Timothy King learn out the choice made by his colleague, District Choose Nina Tempia.
He mentioned: ‘The choice by Choose Tempia is to order your extradition to Germany.
‘Not one of the causes put ahead in your behalf as to why you shouldn’t be extradited have been discovered to use.’
Suliman was advised that he has seven days to attraction the choice.
‘Should you do not achieve this in that timeframe you might lose the chance to attraction,’ the decide mentioned.
‘You’ll stay in custody till both your extradition takes place or till additional hearings in the event you select to attraction.’
Suliman was convicted of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old woman he encountered following an alcohol-fuelled evening out within the German metropolis of Osnabrück in 2022.
Azizadeen Alsheikh Suliman, 31, was given asylum in Germany after fleeing war-torn Syria – however went on to sexually assault a 15-year-old woman there
Suliman is combating deportation again to Germany, arguing that members of a rival Syrian clan will attempt to kill him
After asking her for a lightweight for his cigarette and swapping Instagram accounts, he ‘touched her naked abdomen’ beneath her crop prime, in accordance with German court docket paperwork.
He then gave her half a gram of hashish and ‘moved nearer to her and tried to kiss her’.
When she rejected his advances, Suliman ‘stood in her means and prevented her from passing him by putting his arm round her shoulders’.
‘Together with his different hand, the defendant first touched the sufferer in opposition to her will above her clothes on her chest and backside after which tried to tug down her trousers,’ the judgement states.
Regardless of ‘holding her trousers with each fingers’ she was unable to cease Suliman touching her indecently and exposing himself.
She later advised her mom, with Suliman traced through his Instagram account.
He was additionally convicted of supplying medicine to a minor and given a suspended jail sentence.
However he stopped paying a monetary order imposed by the German courts after turning into unemployed, Westminster Magistrates Courtroom heard final week.
Suliman was detained by the Nationwide Crime Company on October 17, 2025 on the Britannia Ashley Resort in Hale, Higher Manchester (pictured) the place he was staying at taxpayers’ expense after the German authorities issued a European arrest warrant
Going through doable imprisonment after the sentence was reactivated, Suliman fled to Britain the place he claimed asylum.
Alongside together with his spouse – a fellow asylum seeker who he married in Nigeria – and new child child son he was given taxpayer-funded lodging on the Britannia Ashley Resort in Hale, Higher Manchester.
In 2023 the previous three-star resort was branded the ‘most clearly inappropriate location you could possibly think about’ for housing migrants by then native MP Sir Graham Brady.
The upmarket ‘millionaires’ row’ suburb’s residents embody ex-England cricketer Andrew Flintoff, footballer-turned-pundit Roy Keane and actor and radio presenter Craig Charles.
Aided by an Arabic interpreter, bearded Suliman advised final week’s extradition listening to that he’s being threatened by rival members of the family who had additionally settled in Germany.
He mentioned he was from a ‘large tribe’ in Syria and his household there was ‘at all times in battle and in revenge’ with rival teams.
‘My cousin killed 5 males from one other household,’ he mentioned.
‘They burned the homes as effectively. They burnt the entire village.’
In retaliation, members of the opposite household ‘killed three of my cousins in revenge’, Suliman mentioned.
‘So they’re nonetheless lacking one other two. And I’m one among these two.’
He denied giving a unique spelling for his title when he reached the UK, blaming an interpreter.
Suliman’s pregnant spouse, sporting a burgundy burqa, advised the court docket she had left Syria in 2022 after her father and two siblings have been killed in a bombing.
Saying she was wholly reliant on Suliman, she added: ‘If my husband is extradited to Germany I must comply with him as I’ve nobody to assist me within the UK.’
Sophia Kerridge, defending, advised the listening to that extraditing Suliman might breach of his Article 8 rights below the European Conference on Human Rights which ensures a proper to household life.
He ‘genuinely fears for his life if he’s extradited to Germany’, she added.
Miriam Smith, for the German authorities, mentioned there’s a drawback with the UK turning into a ‘protected haven’ for individuals who commit crimes overseas.
Saying it ‘can’t be a coincidence’ that he gave a unique spelling for his title when he arrived on this nation, she added: ‘The proof of his concern of tribal violence merely doesn’t stand as much as scrutiny.’
If he have been extradited to Germany, he might nonetheless reside together with his spouse and son at public expense, she mentioned.
Suliman got here to Germany below the title Izalden Alshaik Suleman and claimed asylum on the age of 21 after being shot within the foot in Syria and not having the ability to work, court docket paperwork from the intercourse assault case present.
He initially labored as a labourer earlier than turning into a kitchen assistant in a restaurant adopted by a short-lived try to start out his personal snack bar enterprise.
On the time of his sentencing he was residing off €400-per-month unemployment profit plus housing and power hand-outs whereas ready to start out a supply job.
He had one earlier conviction from his time in Germany, for driving with no licence.
A House Workplace spokesperson mentioned: ‘We is not going to enable overseas criminals and unlawful migrants to use our legal guidelines, which is why we’re reforming human rights legal guidelines and changing the damaged appeals system, permitting us to scale up deportations.
‘This authorities deported nearly 5,200 overseas nationwide offenders in its first 12 months in workplace, a 14% improve on the earlier 12 months, and we’ll proceed to do all the pieces we will to take away these vile criminals from our streets.
‘All overseas nationwide offenders who obtain a jail sentence within the UK are referred for deportation on the earliest alternative.’
