Albanian national who was deported from UK twice jailed after entering illegally for third time
An Albanian national twice deported from the UK has been jailed after illegally re-entering for a third time, prosecutors have confirmed:
Emirjon Gjuta, 34, was sentenced to 14 months in prison at Leeds Crown Court on Friday after admitting at a previous hearing that he re-entered the UK in November 2024 in breach of a 2020 deportation order.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said Gjuta was first deported in August 2020 following convictions for drug offences.
He was subsequently arrested for unlawful presence in March 2022 and deported to Albania again in March 2023 after being sentenced to prison for violating a deportation order and possessing another person’s identity document.
A spokesman said the defendant claimed he did not fully understand the content of the deportation order because he did not have an interpreter in court in 2020 and 2022.
But he said documents signed by Gjuta confirmed that he did not object to the 2020 deportation order and that he never tried to do so.
The spokesman said it was not clear how Gjuta arrived in the UK in November 2024, but he was arrested in Leeds in September 2025.
Nick Smith, of the CPS, said: “Emirjon Gjuta had no right to stay or work in the UK and had been deported twice before.
“It is clear that he does not care about the rules and has committed crimes when he has been in the UK before.
“The CPS will continue to work with the Home Office and police forces to prosecute people who have no right to be in the country.”
The CPS said Gjuta was jailed for four years and six months in September 2019 after admitting conspiracy to produce cannabis and two counts of possessing or controlling identity documents with intent.
In October 2019, he was served with a deportation order and signed a waiver stating that he would not oppose deportation.
He was deported in August 2020.
In March 2022, Gjuta was sentenced to eight months in prison after being arrested on charges of violating a deportation order and forging documents.
He was deported again in March 2023, the CPS said.
