After serving a prison sentence, he lost several appeals against the UK Home Office decision to deport him to Ghana.

[4] In 2000, after finishing school, he started reading Chemical Engineering at the University of Nottingham, but switched to e-commerce and digital business studies.

[9] He was in prison on remand until 8 June 2012, when he was granted bail subject to being electronically tagged and placed under curfew at a friend's house.

[10] On the morning of 20 November 2012, a jury at Southwark Crown Court unanimously found him guilty on one count of fraud.

Later that day, after receiving an instruction allowing for a majority decision with a single vote against, the jury found him guilty of a second count of fraud.

[12] Despite living in the United Kingdom since 1991, he had never become a British citizen, and was thus liable for automatic deportation under Section 32 of the UK Borders Act 2007 as a foreign criminal who had been sentenced to at least 12 months of imprisonment.

[14] After his release he gave many talks to students, financial traders and others in the banking industry on operating ethically and avoiding the mistakes he made.

[1] However, Home Office officials stated that their actions, and the underlying decision, were matters of longstanding government policy, supported by the law.