A Ghanaian drug smuggler who has been deported from the UK three times has won his appeal to remain in Britain.

Oduola Toye used a fake passport to re-enter the UK and has been allowed to stay on human rights grounds.

The convicted fraudster and drug smuggler claimed that deportation would breach his article eight rights to a family life under the European Convention on Human Rights.

The immigration tribunal ruled in his favour.

The father of three has used multiple identities over the past 40 years, including Sunday Ogundare, the name he used to be convicted of deception in 1987.

After receiving a fine and being deported to Nigeria following the conviction, he was arrested on arrival, attempting to re-enter Britain in May 1993 after being found with illegal drugs.

The criminal used a visitor’s visa under the name of Ogundare Badmus.

Just months later, he was sentenced to four years in jail for smuggling drugs before being deported to Nigeria in July 1995.

A Ghanaian drug smuggler who has been deported from the UK three times has won his appeal to remain in Britain

Mr Oduola broke his deportation order in 1996, returning to Britain.

He was granted indefinite leave to remain under the name Oduola Toye in 2001.