Algerian Refugee Who Sprayed Food At Grocery Stores With His Feces Can't Be Deported

An Algerian man who was jailed for spraying food with his own excrement in supermarkets still can't be deported - despite a £250,000 legal battle to kick him out of the country.

Chemist Sahnoun Daifallah, 50, was jailed for nine years at Bristol Crown Court in 2009 for contaminating food, wine and books at four businesses in May 2008.

Daifallah squirted a mixture of urine and faeces from a 1.5 litre weed killer container - concealed within a laptop bag - at the Air Balloon Pub in Birdlip, before moving on to a Waterstones bookshop in Cirencester.

Two days later, he targeted a Tesco store in Quedgley and a Morrisons in Abbeydale.

A search of his house in Gloucester revealed further plans to contaminate businesses in Bristol and Birmingham.

...Daifallah, who was granted refugee status two years after arriving in Britain in 1999, was told he would be deported in 2010 - but he has been in immigration custody since February 2013, The Sun reported.

Since then, there have been two judicial reviews. However it is not clear what his objections to deportation were.

According to the paper, those 54 months spent in immigration detention have cost the taxpayer a whopping £155,000.

Along with Daifallah's estimated legal bills of £100,000, that's a total of £250,000.