• 4 months ago
• Posted in:ASBO/CBO breaches, Burglary/Robbery, Driving Offences, Racially aggravated offences, Stalking/harrassment/threats, Theft/ Fraud/ Money laundering, Violent Offences
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• Author: Trans Crime
• Tags: Aged <20, Aged 20-29, Asylum seeker, Brighton, Convicted 2014, Convicted 2015, Convicted 2016, Convicted 2018, Convicted 2020, England, Hate crime, Multiple victims, Racism, Reoffended while on licence/bail, Repeat offender, Sussex, Sussex Police, Trans woman, Transvestite, Victim sex unknown

MS, a violent male who identifies as a transgender woman, has been convicted of numerous violent crimes since arriving in the UK from Algeria 12 years ago, including burglary and theft; attempted burglary with intent to steal; using threatening, abusive, insulting words or behaviour with intent to cause fear or provocation of violence; and theft. MS, aged 27, cannot be named for legal reasons and was originally granted asylum in the UK in 2013 and given leave to remain for five years. He settled in Brighton – but reportedly “fell in with a drug gang after falling in love with a man involved in the criminal underworld.”

Given his prolific violent offending, a deportation order was finally made in August 2022, and he was served with a notice of the decision to revoke his refugee status in the same month. However, in July 2025 MS won the right to stay in Britain after claiming he would face ridicule and abuse in his home country for being transgender.  He claimed he would be targeted in Algeria because of his sexuality, described to a court as “gay, transvestite and/or transgender”

Below is a list of his offending timeline, beginning shortly after arrival:

• Between April 2014 and January 2015, he was convicted of burglary, attempted burglary, threatening behaviour and theft.
• Eight convictions between May 2016 and June 2018 for offences including “theft, resisting or obstructing a constable, failing to surrender to custody at an appointed time and various driving offences
• In August 2018, MS was convicted for offences including theft and racially aggravated provocation (i.e. a hate crime)
• In January 2020 he was convicted for offences including battery and sentenced to four years and three months in prison after also receiving a conviction for robbery and breaching a criminal behaviour order.

See also Laura Davis, a trans-identified male asylum seeker from Saudi Arabia who was convicted in 2023 of having caused racially, religiously aggravated harassment, alarm or distress by words or writing.

Media reports

Daily Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/28/algerian-criminal-stay-uk-mocked-being-trans/  archive

Daily Mail https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14826185/Algerian-criminal-convictions-dodges-deportation-gay.html  archive