The British media is reporting that a violent father-of-two escaped deportation moments before being put on a plane to Jamaica, after suddenly declaring he was a homosexual.

The Jamaican man, 55 year old Alvin Brissett, was ordered deported after accumulating a long criminal record including thefts, drug possession and assaults.

Yet at the last moment, while he was in handcuffs in a van at Gatwick Airport, he announced he was gay and claimed he could not be sent to Jamaica because he could face discrimination there.

This claim halted his deportation.

Even though a hearing subsequently ruled it would have been lawful to send Brissett home, he has now won the right to remain.

Two immigration judges have ruled that his human right to a family life is more important than the wish of British Home Secretary Theresa May, to protect the public from him.

Conservative Member of Parliament Philip Davies says Brissett’s case perfectly shows how British law is a jackass.

He says the country must now be a complete laughing stock.

Asked about claims that he was not really gay, Brissett told The Sun newspaper that he, ‘had a right.’

Brissett, of Stratford, East London, was 13 years old when he came to Britain.

He has 18 convictions for theft, three for possession of drugs and four for assault.

In 1993 he was jailed for seven years for robbery.

Ten years ago he received a 12-month sentence for theft and threatening behaviour.

Then, in 2009, after he was jailed for a street attack, the Home Office ordered that he should be sent to Jamaica.

Brissett immediately began using human rights laws, and his right to a family life, to contest the deportation, but all his appeals failed.

In March 2011, the Home Secretary signed his deportation order.

It was shortly afterwards, as he was on his way to the plane, that he made his gay claim.

Police immediately turned round and returned to a police station.

A series of further hearings followed and judges have now ruled he is free to remain.

There has been growing concern in Britain about the way criminals and failed asylum seekers defeat deportation orders by using the clause of the Human Rights Act guaranteeing a right to a family life.

Claims that the deportee will face discrimination or violence in their homeland are also often accepted by courts, despite scepticism by others.

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