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A PAEDOPHILE found guilty of raping a seven-year-old has been stripped of his British passport and faces deportation.
The man, who can only be identified as RSD, came to the UK from India in 1997 and was granted citizenship in 2004.
In 2011 he was convicted of 23 counts of sexal abuse of "a male within the family" between 2003 and 2010.
He was sentenced to 14 years imprisonment and placed on the sex offenders register for life.
Because the offences took place before RSD got his passport, it means he lied in order for citizenship to be granted.
For this reason the Home Secretary took the decision to remove his citizenship, the first move of its kind.
In February this year the Home Secretary Sajid David told RSD: "Given the fact that you began your sexual offences in 2003, prior to lodging your naturalisation application, and continued to do so many years after you were granted British citizenship, you were clearly not of good character.
"It was only because you concealed your sexual assaults that led (sic) to your application succeeding."
RSD initally won an appeal after Mr Javid first sought to remove his citizenship.
But a senior judge has ruled against the appeal and says he was "clearly not of good character".
The case presents the Home Secretary with more power to revoke citizenship if a paedophile lies about the grooming of a child during the naturalisation process.
This case follows the Rochdale child abuse scandal which has led to three men facing deportation to Pakistan.
They were among nine men jailed in 2012 for grooming and raping girls, plying them with alcohol and drugs so they could "pass them round" for sex.
The man, who can only be identified as RSD, came to the UK from India in 1997 and was granted citizenship in 2004.
In 2011 he was convicted of 23 counts of sexal abuse of "a male within the family" between 2003 and 2010.
He was sentenced to 14 years imprisonment and placed on the sex offenders register for life.
Because the offences took place before RSD got his passport, it means he lied in order for citizenship to be granted.
For this reason the Home Secretary took the decision to remove his citizenship, the first move of its kind.
In February this year the Home Secretary Sajid David told RSD: "Given the fact that you began your sexual offences in 2003, prior to lodging your naturalisation application, and continued to do so many years after you were granted British citizenship, you were clearly not of good character.
"It was only because you concealed your sexual assaults that led (sic) to your application succeeding."
RSD initally won an appeal after Mr Javid first sought to remove his citizenship.
But a senior judge has ruled against the appeal and says he was "clearly not of good character".
The case presents the Home Secretary with more power to revoke citizenship if a paedophile lies about the grooming of a child during the naturalisation process.
This case follows the Rochdale child abuse scandal which has led to three men facing deportation to Pakistan.
They were among nine men jailed in 2012 for grooming and raping girls, plying them with alcohol and drugs so they could "pass them round" for sex.