Richard Andrew Smith v The Secretary of State for the Home Department

Facts

The appellant, who claims to be Richard Andrew Smith, a British citizen born in Hammersmith on 28 June 1970, has also been known as Carl Barrington Johnson and, on the respondent's case, is in truth Barrington Winston Douglas, a Jamaican national born on 23 April 1967. The respondent's position is that he arrived in the United Kingdom on 6 December 1987 with leave to enter as a visitor until 20 January 1988 and thereafter overstayed. Questions about his identity first arose following his arrest in January 1992. He received 19 convictions for 30 offences between 25 September 1989 and 11 February 2002, and on 21 February 2003 was convicted of having a firearm with intent to resist arrest, receiving a life sentence as this was his second firearms offence. He was notified of the decision to deport him by letter dated 7 April 2016, did not respond, and a deportation order was signed on 16 May 2016. He was convicted again on 10 July 2019 (battery) and 8 November 2023 (possession of cannabis). His application of 8 October 2024 to revoke the deportation order was treated as a human rights claim and refused on 10 March 2025. He appealed to the First-tier Tribunal.