The applicant, Moshood Abiola Balogun, is a Nigerian national who was born in 1986, and has been living in the United Kingdom since the age of three. Convicted of serious drug-related offences, he was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment in 2007 and informed of the authorities’ intention to deport him. Relying in particular on Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life), he alleges that he has no ties with Nigeria, having entered the United Kingdom at a very young age, and that his deportation to Nigeria would gravely interfere with his private and family life with his half-brother, aunt and girlfriend (a British citizen). He also alleges that he is a suicide risk and deporting him would therefore breach Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman and degrading treatment).
(from the official press-release prepared by the Registry Office of the European Court of Human Rights)