Dorian Puka, 28, has previously been jailed and deported twice from the UK for burglaries. The criminal, who currently cannot be deported, has ridiculed the Home Office by posting a video of him on New Year’s Eve from a nightclub in London.
He posted footage of himself smoking a shisha pipe alongside a fire-breathing belly dancer. Using his TikTok account, he ends the clip with a picture of Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament, adding the message: “Happy New Year everyone!…Wish the best for all!”
The government is unable to deport him due to Puka claiming asylum meaning officials cannot remove him from the country until his case is fully considered. This could take months if not years.
The video comes after a series of videos he posted on social media accounts of himself driving a £300,000 Ferrari around London. He also uploaded images of himself with dozens of expensive Rolex watches and other cars.
The burglar also taunted Reform UK leader Nigel Farage in a picture of himself at a dinner table with a photoshopped image of the Clacton MP giving a thumbs-up. In response, Mr Farage labelled him a “proper wrong ‘un” who was “walking all over” the UK authorities.
The Albanian criminal was jailed for nine months back in 2016 for attempting to break into a property before the owner spotted him on a webcam. Puka was then deported the following year.
However, he managed to evade border controls shortly after and return to the UK, where he carried out several burglaries in London.
Plainclothes officers then caught him in Surbiton in southwest London – Puka was jailed for three-and-a-half years before being deported in March 2020.
While in prison in England, Puka used an illegal mobile phone which was smuggled in, posting pictures of himself onto Instagram alongside an organised crime group leader who was serving 12 years.
Upon returning to Albania, he travelled throughout Europe before beating border control to re-enter the UK in December 2020. It is understood that he lodged an asylum application and has been on immigration bail, along with being subject to an electronic tag since last year, while awaiting an immigration tribunal to decide his claim.
A Home Office spokesman told the Telegraph: “Foreign nationals who commit crimes should be in no doubt that the law will be enforced. Mr Puka has been deported by the UK before. It is UK law that we cannot deport individuals where there are claims or representations still awaiting decision.
“We have already begun delivering a major surge in immigration enforcement and returns activity to remove people with no right to be in the UK, with 3,000 returned since the new government came into power.”