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A child rapist from Eritrea who was jailed for raping a teenage girl will not be deported back to his home country after arguing that it would harm his mental health.

The rapist was caged for his crimes and had been due to be deported ten years ago in 2014.

However, the fiend appealed arguing that he could not be properly treated for PTSD and depression in the East African country, the Sun reports.

The Home Office has refused to name the rapist for 'legal reasons' despite a security report stating he currently poses a medium level security risk whilst living freely in the UK.

Last month, a doctor witness stated that should the rapist return to Eritrea he would most likely kill himself and would also be punished for fleeing a military draft.

A security report into the man found that he currently poses a medium level security risk whilst living freely in the UK.

Blasting the descision, Tory MP Nigel Mills told the Sun: 'This man committed a serious criminal offence and should be nowhere near this country.

'If he was concerned about losing mental health treatment or being arrested for fleeing the draft, he should have thought about that before he committed the crime.

'This decision is another sign the tribunal system is deeply out of touch with the rest of Britain.'

Last week, it emerged that a failed asylum seeker whose deportation was blocked after cabin crew prevented his repatriation flight from taking off has pleaded guilty to raping a 15-year-old girl.

Anicet Mayela, 40, who once protested outside a detention centre with a sign that read 'migrants are not criminals', could now face life in jail.

Oxford Crown Court heard that there was a high level of 'dangerousness' during the sex attack by the former economics student, The Sun reports.

The Congolese national claimed his life was at risk when he paid an 'agent' to smuggle him out of the African country, arriving in the UK in 2004.

The first attempt to deport him failed after he alleged he was injured in an isolation cell at Colnbrook Immigration Removal Centre near Heathrow Airport.

Mayela was then held at Campsfield House Detention Centre in Kidlington, where he was later pictured with a 'stop detention' sign following his release.

A deportation flight was planned for May 2005, but the removal was foiled by Air France crew, who stopped the flight taking off from Southampton.

A source said to be close to Home Secretary James Cleverly reportedly told The Sun that people 'with no knowledge' of the situations of those for whom 'they suddenly decide to intervene... can have appalling consequences for others'.