UI2024001817

Pursuant to rule 14 of the Tribunal Procedure (Upper Tribunal) Rules 2008, the appellant is granted anonymity.

No-one shall publish or reveal any information, including the name or address of the appellant, likely to lead members of the public to identify the appellant. Failure to comply with this order could amount to a contempt of court .

             The appellant appeals with permission against the decision of First-tier Tribunal Judge Agnew, promulgated on 28 March 2024, dismissing the appellant's appeal against the decision of the Secretary of State and then on 14 July 2023 to refuse his protection claim that had been made on 25 October 2021.

             In brief, the appellant is a citizen of Sierra Leone, who says that he is at risk on return to Sierra Leone on account of his membership of a particular social group, that is someone opposed to initiation into the Poro Society, a secret society extant in Sierra Leone. But the Secretary of State did not accept his case.

             As a preliminary matter the judge raised the fact that the woman known as AK who brought children to the United Kingdom including the appellant, although not their parent, had been refused asylum and her appeal had been refused. She provided the appeal numbers, PA/54950/2023 and one PA/51388/2021. The judge noted these at paragraph [27] of her decision and then at [28], that she had said that she would not take them into account in her decision. The judge went on to dismiss the appeal.