Angeltigger
17-11-2005, 14:47
Big Brother 6 star Makosi Musambasi has won her battle to stay in Britain as a refugee.
Her sexy antics in the Channel 4 reality show means it is now unsafe for her to return to her native Zimbabwe, where she could face vicious hate mobs, the Central London Asylum and Immigration tribunal ruled.
A relative of dictator Robert Mugabe is a former lover.
The 25-year-old resigned as a cardiac nurse at High Wycombe Hospital, Buckinghamshire, to appear on Big Brother, breaching the rules of her work visa.
The Home Office gave her notice to quit in August because she was allowed to stay as long as she worked as a nurse.
Makosi, who came to Britain in 1998, hurriedly made an asylum application which was rejected earlier this month.
The tribunal chairman, Francis Pinkerton, said: "She is in a different situation now than she was some seven months ago before appearing on Big Brother.
"Before that, she had been to Zimbabwe on a number of occasions and presumably encountered no problems.
"The appearance on the show has changed things a great deal. Her evidence is that she now does fear to go back to Zimbabwe.
"She is therefore a failed asylum seeker and we find that because she is an involuntary returnee, she is a refugee under the 1951 convention and therefore we allow her appeal on that basis
Her sexy antics in the Channel 4 reality show means it is now unsafe for her to return to her native Zimbabwe, where she could face vicious hate mobs, the Central London Asylum and Immigration tribunal ruled.
A relative of dictator Robert Mugabe is a former lover.
The 25-year-old resigned as a cardiac nurse at High Wycombe Hospital, Buckinghamshire, to appear on Big Brother, breaching the rules of her work visa.
The Home Office gave her notice to quit in August because she was allowed to stay as long as she worked as a nurse.
Makosi, who came to Britain in 1998, hurriedly made an asylum application which was rejected earlier this month.
The tribunal chairman, Francis Pinkerton, said: "She is in a different situation now than she was some seven months ago before appearing on Big Brother.
"Before that, she had been to Zimbabwe on a number of occasions and presumably encountered no problems.
"The appearance on the show has changed things a great deal. Her evidence is that she now does fear to go back to Zimbabwe.
"She is therefore a failed asylum seeker and we find that because she is an involuntary returnee, she is a refugee under the 1951 convention and therefore we allow her appeal on that basis