KSA (Ghana) v The Secretary of State for the Home Department

Facts

The appellant, KSA, is a national of Ghana born in 1993 who entered the United Kingdom on 14 December 2024 with a six month visitor's visa valid until 5 June 2025. He claimed asylum on 27 December 2024 on the basis that he was at risk on return to Ghana because of his sexuality. His account was that he realised he was attracted to men in adolescence, had a five year relationship with a man named Julian, was caught by his father and later arrested and tortured in police detention, and that his father arranged a marriage for him with a friend's daughter; he married in July 2023 and has two children. He said he was later caught with another man met at university, again detained and tortured, and escaped when the police permitted his uncle to take him to a hospital appointment, from which his uncle took him to the airport. He relied on documents said to come from the Ghanaian police, a scarring report by Dr Brian Sommerlad, support from Reverend Morgan of an inclusive church, and a claimed relationship with BT, a Ghanaian man recognised as a refugee on account of his sexuality on 23 January 2026. The Secretary of State refused the claim on 4 July 2025, accepting that the fear engaged the Refugee Convention but disputing the appellant's sexuality. He appealed under the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002.