A three-and-a-half month stay at a comfortable hotel overlooking the Indian Ocean with an on-call doctor. Not the usual care package you’d expect to be provided to a traumatised rape victim let alone their attacker

It was the sort of devoted care you’d maybe count on to be supplied to a traumatised rape sufferer. A personalised help bundle that included a three-and-a-half month keep at a snug resort overlooking the Indian Ocean with a physician on name to offer essential psychological remedy.

This isn’t, nonetheless, what was supplied to Hannah, the sufferer of a horrific gang rape when she was simply 16. As a substitute, it was laid on for her attacker, Yaqub Ahmed, as a part of a determined bid by the House Workplace to safe his deportation to East Africa.

Court docket papers obtained by The Mail on Sunday element how officers have been compelled to attract up an elaborate ‘care plan’ costing tens of 1000’s of kilos for Ahmed in a bid to defeat his makes an attempt to thwart deportation to Somalia on human rights grounds.

The centrepiece of the bundle was for taxpayers to fund a 14-week keep for Ahmed on the Peace Resort, close to Aden Adde Airport in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu. It included free meals and is estimated to have price as much as £11,800.

With its spectacular roof terrace overlooking the Indian Ocean and tranquil courtyard backyard, the resort is an oasis of calm amid the chaos of Mogadishu. A well-liked selection amongst diplomats and enterprise chiefs visiting town, its attentive workers scatter pink flower petals on the beds of newly-arrived friends.

The 45-room resort’s web site boasts of barbecue evenings, with friends invited to ‘get pleasure from a shocking view of Mogadishu metropolis… with a choice of flame roasted barbecued meats’.

With its fortified gate and excessive compound partitions, the resort additionally prides itself on its safety, with friends supplied free physique armour and the safety of a crew of AK47-wielding bodyguards.

The MoS understands that Ahmed was flown to Somalia on a chartered flight to cease a repetition of his failed 2018 deportation when passengers on the flight, unaware of his crime, demanded he be led off the plane because it sat on the Heathrow tarmac.

It was final night time unclear whether or not there have been every other deported criminals aboard the chartered flight, which is estimated to have price round £200,000.

Ahmed arrived at Mogadishu’s airport on August 2 and was met by his personal detachment of armed guards, who escorted him to a ready armour-plated car. Within the sort of safety operation usually laid on for visiting VIPs, the car, protected by a pick-up truck with armed guards perched on board, whisked him to the close by resort.

Safety consultants estimate the price of that four-minute drive may have been as much as £1,000.

As soon as on the Peace Resort, Ahmed may benefit from a ‘therapy plan particular to his wants’ that had been organised to assist him deal with the stress of being faraway from the UK.

The courtroom papers reveal how this included ‘psychological well being remedy and psychological companies by way of a clinic’.

His care was to be overseen by a medic referred to in courtroom papers as ‘Dr S’. The House Workplace agreed that taxpayers would pay for a month’s provide of antidepressant remedy, the papers state.

‘Dr S had confirmed that such therapy may very well be supplied for a chronic time frame and will embody the supply of remedy and psychological remedy both in particular person or remotely,’ one doc added.

The rapist was to be pushed to his common appointments on the clinic. It’s unknown whether or not this once more concerned an armoured car and armed guards.

Final night time, Hannah (not her actual title) stated it was ‘stunning’ that House Workplace officers have been compelled to put on help for Ahmed due to human rights legal guidelines.

‘The justice system is not match for objective,’ she stated. ‘The very fact they needed to give him this outrageous bundle to have the ability to take away him is ridiculous. I am grateful they did every thing they did as a result of we’re lastly rid of him however they should not have had to try this.’ The beneficiant care bundle was drawn up after Ahmed claimed that deporting him to Somalia would breach his human rights due to the danger that he would take his life.

In July 2019, psychiatrist Dr Nuwan Galappathie assessed Ahmed and concluded he suffered from post-traumatic stress dysfunction and extreme melancholy. However that was contradicted by one other psychiatrist, appointed by the House Workplace, who stated that whereas he was struggling ‘some depressive signs’ they didn’t qualify as a prognosis of melancholy.

For an enchantment listening to, a 3rd psychiatrist, concluded Ahmed’s signs have been ‘gentle… more often than not’, including: ‘As soon as he arrives in Somalia and is supplied with care [and] help both domestically, or remotely from the UK, the danger of suicide is more likely to lower.’

After the 14 weeks lodging was prompt, Ahmed lastly dropped this authorized problem, earlier than launching one other declare that additional delayed his deportation.

Ahmed’s taxpayer-funded bundle ran out earlier this month and it stays unclear what number of nights he stayed on the Peace Resort.

Proprietor Bashir Osman final night time confirmed Ahmed had left and prompt he was not the primary deported Somali to remain there.

‘I’m not positive how lengthy he was there. Generally there are some individuals like that – additionally they arrive from totally different nations – principally they keep per week or two or a month. It’s kind of tough to know… if they’re deported or not.’