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A B.C. man convicted of trafficking cocaine after an investigation into the East End Hells Angels has lost his bid to set aside a deportation order and remain in Canada.

The Federal Court of Appeal dismissed an application from David Roger Revell for a judicial review of an immigration board decision to deport him to his native England.

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Federal Appeal Court Justice Yves de Montigny rejected Revell’s arguments that his Charter rights were violated when a lower court judge upheld a 2016 ruling that “he was inadmissible to Canada on the grounds of serious criminality … and organized criminality.”

Revell, 55, came to Canada in 1974 at the age of 10. He never applied for citizenship.

He was a Hells Angels associate living in Kelowna when he was ensnared in the 2005 E-Pandora investigation into the East End chapter of the notorious biker gang.

In 2008, he was convicted of trafficking out of a car lot he owned and sentenced to five years in jail. He was acquitted on a charge of working for a criminal organization.