Chef wrongly branded sex offender wins long fight to stay in UK

Home Office curtailed Saiful Islam’s visa in 2010 after wrongly linking him to criminal convictions

A chef from Bangladesh who was wrongly recorded as a sex offender by the Home Office has won the right to remain in the UK after fighting since 2010.

Saiful Islam, 47, arrived in the UK in 2003 at the age of 27 after being granted a work permit to take up a job as a chef in a Thai restaurant. In 2005 he raised the alarm with the police and the Home Office that his employer was exploiting him by withholding most of his wages, forcing him to work 18-hour days, and beating him.