A deported asylum seeker wanted to stay in Brighton because he was a “practising homosexual”, Ministry of Justice (MoJ) papers have revealed.

Since 2003 the Home Office has ordered a number of Sussex asylum seekers to leave the UK.

One case refers to a gay man from Thailand who had studied in the city as a student and stayed on, living in Hove, Brighton and Worthing.

He married his Swiss partner in Brighton in 2006, who under European laws is allowed to live in the UK.

After the pair’s divorce the Home Office attempted to deport the Thai man.

His appeal stated he wanted to stay in the city because of its thriving gay scene.

MoJ papers said: “The Immigration Judge found that there was no evidence to demonstrate that the appellant’s private life could not continue to be carried on in Thailand.”

He lost his case and was deported.

Another case referred to a teenage orphan, who made a life for herself in West Sussex after being kidnapped at knifepoint by gypsies in Romania.

She was raped and forced into prostitution.

However, the MoJ’s report found that she had to leave because there would be sufficient protection for her in Romania.

Experts warned that she had to have protection as her captors might seek her out to “make an example of her”.

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