EXCLUSIVE Living the high life back in the UK: The Albanian burglar who has already been deported TWICE
- Dorian Puka has managed to evade authorities for over two years
Standing on a luxury Cornish spa hotel’s golf course dressed in a scruffy animal print shirt, cargo shorts and sandals, Dorian Puka strikes an incongruous figure.
But it is not just the questionable choice of attire among the well-heeled holidaymakers of Carlyon Bay that is out of place.
For the prolific Albanian burglar has twice been deported for a string of crimes across suburban London and should not be in Britain at all.
Yet somehow Puka, 28, has managed to evade the authorities to live a life of luxury in this country for over two years since the Home Office was first informed he was back.
He cannot be said to have been living under the radar either since Border Force was told that he had returned in January 2021. Pictures from his open social media accounts show him driving around the capital in Porsches, Mercedes, BMWs and Range Rovers.
Puka posts incessantly, boasting about his charmed British life
He was deported in March 2020, but was back by the following January
Puka’s flagrant breach of immigration controls is the latest illustration of UK border failings
Puka posts incessantly, boasting about his charmed British life by sharing photos of himself in expensive west London restaurants and taking holidays on the south coast.
In a further kick in the teeth for his victims, he published photos from a weekend away at the four-star Carlyon Bay Hotel near St Austell, Cornwall, where rooms start at £250 a night. He was seen playing golf, enjoying drinks by the green and visiting the local beach seemingly with no worries about the prospect of arrest and deportation.
Yet, despite making little effort to hide his whereabouts, the Home Office has seemingly been unable to locate the serial thief who has terrorised outer London for nearly a decade.
But it took this newspaper just two weeks to find him. We pieced together information from social media, newspaper clippings and intelligence from the Albanian community to track Puka down to a £250,000 two-bed terraced flat in Hounslow, west London.
The property is owned by an accountant. Puka is not listed at the address. When we visited, he was spotted leaving in a £60,000 black Mercedes CLS Coupe to get a coffee in a T-shirt emblazoned with the words ‘Weekend Offender’ and ‘Admit Nothing’.
He was seen taking friends and his pitbull terriers for rides in a fleet of cars that also include a £75,000 Porsche Cayenne, a £130,000 Mercedes G-Wagon and a £55,000 BMW X5.
He was also seen enjoying evenings at local shisha bars, walks in the park and visiting cafes – all without a Border Force agent or policeman in sight.
Puka’s flagrant breach of immigration controls is the latest illustration of UK border failings.
He was first jailed for nine months for attempting to break into a property in Twickenham in 2016 before being deported the following year. But within 12 months he returned to the UK, where he carried out a string of burglaries in suburban London.
It is unclear how he re-entered the country. He was eventually apprehended, wearing an expensive stolen watch, by a plain clothes officer in Surbiton, south-west London.
Puka was jailed for three-and-a-half years but his offending did not stop once behind bars.
He gained notoriety by posting photos on a smuggled phone with prisoners associated with organised crime groups. In one he posed with a fellow convict and wrote: ‘From H.M.P. we jump in V.I.P….!!!!’.
He was deported in March 2020, but was back by the following January. Social media posts showed he had travelled via Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands.
Standing on a luxury Cornish spa hotel’s golf course dressed in a scruffy animal print shirt, cargo shorts and sandals, Dorian Puka strikes an incongruous figure
At the time, this information was passed to Border Force who vowed to track him down for deportation – but he has continued to live in the UK unimpeded.
Immigration minister Robert Jenrick has admitted to the deportation of just ‘hundreds’ of Albanians despite over 12,000 arriving on small boats in 12 months.
Britain struck a ‘gold standard’ deal with Albania in a bid to improve the process. It includes convicts with a year left to serve in UK jails being freed early and deported. But when the BBC spoke to 50 Albanians deported under this deal in May, they said they would immediately attempt to return to the UK.
A Home Office spokesman said: ‘Foreign criminals who violate our laws have no place in the UK. Knowingly entering the UK without leave is a criminal offence and anyone who has committed such an offence should be prepared to face prosecution and removal.’
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