Home Office Stymied by Serial Burglar's Asylum Play

Dorian Puka films himself in a Mayfair nightclub’s VIP section, shisha pipe in hand amid burlesque dancers and champagne towers. The 31-year-old Albanian completed two prison terms for burglaries, faced two deportations, yet returned twice undetected. Ministers tout border security; Puka’s Instagram exposes the void.

He entered the UK illegally after his 2017 deportation, burgled suburban London homes, and drew plain-clothes patrols to Surbiton. Caught again, he slipped back in December 2020. His asylum claim, lodged against removal, placed him on bail with an electronic tag since 2023.

The Home Office confirms it cannot act until a tribunal rules. Puka’s videos multiply: a black Rolls-Royce Cullinan with a £10,000 hybrid cat aboard, a red Ferrari, a £184,950 Lamborghini Urus V8, Rolex Day-Date at £53,000. Earlier taunts targeted Nigel Farage after the MP called for his exit.

Burglary proceeds evidently bankroll this display. Victims lost property to fund Puka’s Cirque le Soir nights and Radio Rooftop poses. No arrests follow his posts; enforcement halts at the asylum barrier.

Asylum as Deportation Shield

UK law pauses removals for active claims, even from convicted criminals. Puka exploits this since 2020, outlasting processing backlogs. Tribunals stretch over years, during which reoffending risks persist unchecked.

This mechanism repeats across nationalities. Foreign offenders claim asylum post-conviction, stalling deportation. Home Office data shows thousands in similar limbo, many with violent records.

Governments rotate—Conservative, Labour—yet the bottleneck endures. Pre-1997, faster hearings curbed such returns; now, appeals layers multiply delays.

Victims Pay for the Spectacle

Puka’s first raid hit a holidaying owner’s home, spotted on webcam. Surbiton saw burglary spikes until his arrest. Each entry restarts the crime cycle, imposing uninsured losses on households.

London burglary clearance rates hover below 10%. Repeat foreign national offenders, like Puka, amplify unsolved cases. Taxpayers fund his bail monitoring while victims bear direct costs.

Institutional response stays inert. Police track social media taunts but defer to immigration rules. No coordinated crackdown emerges.

Sovereignty Surrenders to Procedure

Border Force missed two re-entries. Asylum intake overwhelms, with 90% refusal rates yet glacial processing. Criminals game the gap, funding lives from UK spoils.

This pattern erodes deterrence. Potential burglars note Puka’s impunity: tag on, Lambo keys in hand. Public safety yields to legalism.

Cross-party inaction sustains it. Labour’s 2024 pledges echo Tory controls, both unfulfilled amid rising net migration. Procedure trumps expulsion.

Puka’s Mayfair revelry lays bare UK border collapse. Criminals return, thrive, and mock the state, their crimes unpunished, victims forgotten. Sovereignty now bows to backlog; ordinary citizens guard doors against a system that imports its own predators.