IA030342021

For the Respondent: Ms E Daykin, Counsel instructed by Rashid and Rashid, Solicitors

             In order to consider this contention I have found it necessary to set out in some detail the First-tier Tribunal's reasons for reaching the decision that it did.

             The judge noted that the claimant identifies himself as a citizen of Albania who was born in 1979 and is so now almost 43 years old.

             The claimant says that he entered the United Kingdom clandestinely in 2013. He was encountered by the police in June 2018 and claimed asylum a few days later. His application for protection was refused on 2 March 2021 and he appealed against that decision. He said that he feared a named family because members of the family had declared a blood feud against him because he had killed his wife who was a member of that family and in so doing he had dishonoured them.

             It is the claimant's case that he was convicted of murder in early 2004 and was later sentenced to twelve years' imprisonment. He said the killing was an accident during a dispute when his wife attacked him with a knife. He claimed that his wife's family influenced improperly the criminal investigation and that family members had refused to reconcile the feud.