A CONVICTED sex offender and Kurdish refugee who breached his deportation order after being found in the back of a lorry in Swindon, has been sentenced to four months in prison.

Chalak Jabar-Hassan, 31, from Iraq, was discovered by police in the back of a lorry in Faraday Road after a lorry driver reported seeing nine men climb out in front of him on Tuesday afternoon.

Chippenham magistrates heard Jabar-Hussan had paid £4,000 to an Iranian man at a French camp to get him into the UK, along with six others, so he could see his two children and claim asylum.

Prosecutor Michelle Hewitt said: “He was arrested because he is subject to a deportation order which he is currently in breach of.

“That order prohibits him from entering the country until July 2017 and began on July 27, 2007.

“This deportation order was issued after his last criminal offence and by entering this country he has breached it.”

At North Wiltshire Magistrates Court on Thursday Jabar-Hussan admitted knowingly entering the United Kingdom in breach of a deportation order.

The court heard he had previously appeared in court in Sheffield where he was convicted for sexual assault on a child which resulted in him being placed on the sex offenders’ register indefinitely.

Phillip Hall, defending, said: “He is a Kurd from Iraq and, while my knowledge of current affairs isn’t as good as it used to be, I understand that a lot of people are unhappy there.

“He tried to seek asylum from the late Saddam Hussein and his application was refused.

“When he was released from prison he had some consolation that Mr Hussein was dead, however recently this has been upset again with Daesh, or ISIS as we know them as, taking control over the area.

“He tried once again to flee renewed oppression and enter the country which would give him the chance to see his two children.

“What we have here is an unskilled and naive attempt to enter this country, aggravated to some extent of course by the breach of his deportation order.”

He said Jabar-Hussan was co-operative with police and had entered a guilty plea at the earliest opportunity.

Passing sentence, the chairman of the bench, Mr Gilbert said: “You were deported from this country on account of very serious criminal charges that you were found guilty of.

“It is very difficult to find any excuses as to why you would defy that deportation order and return to this country. You will be sent to prison for four months and you will pay a surcharge of £115.”