A Pakistani paedophile has won a legal battle amid his fight to stay in the UK after arguing he can't be deported.
Child sex offender Jamil Ahmed said he should not be sent back to the nation of his birth because he is worried he will be persecuted there.
His crimes were publicised in his home country and therefore he might face punishment on his return.
Ahmed - who molested multiple teenage girls in Britain - said his crimes were published in newspapers in Pakistan and as a result he could be prosecuted there or attacked by 'religious fanatics'.
He has managed to dodge deportation and remain in Scotland since 2008 when he was convicted of abusing a teenage girl, despite being convicted of a similar offence again in 2013.
Speaking to an asylum court he said it would be against his human rights to kick him out of the UK.
He has now won an appeal after the Home Office tried to deport him and his case will be re-heard.
Ahmed was born in Pakistan but moved to Scotland in 2002 to be with his wife.
The couple had a son and Ahmed was granted leave to remain in 2003. After divorcing he married again in 2006 and had another son in 2007.
He was convicted in 2008 of unlawful sexual intercourse with a girl between 13 and 16 years of age and sentenced to a three-year probation order and 240 hours of community service.
In November 2013 he was convicted of unlawful sexual intercourse with a girl between 13 and 16 and sexually assaulting a teenager.
He was jailed for three years and six months and placed on the Sex Offenders Register for an indefinite period.
As a result, Ahmed was subjected to a deportation order. However, he has embarked on a near decade-long legal fight to stay in Britain.
He has lost two appeals but has never been removed from the UK.
In 2014, then-Home Secretary Theresa May ordered that Ahmed be deported immediately and that any further legal appeals should be dealt with from Pakistan.
He argued at the time that deportation would separate him from his wife and children, breaching his right to a family life as enshrined in European Convention on Human Rights
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