Is there any more damning story about the state of our immigration tribunals than the tale last week of a convicted Albanian criminal allowed to stay in the UK because his 10-year-old son doesn’t like foreign chicken nuggets? Talk about clucking mad.

       A judge ruled that it would be “unduly harsh” for the child to be deported to Albania with his father, due to his sensitivity around food and other needs. Using a fake name and claiming to have been born in the former Yugoslavia, Klevis Disha, 39, entered the UK illegally as a 15-year-old in 2001.

       And it gets far worse. Despite having his asylum claim rejected, Disha gained UK citizenship in 2007 after being granted exceptional leave to remain, followed by an indefinite leave to remain. Yet rather than be grateful to the UK for giving him a home, he turned to crime – to nobody’s surprise except, of course, the Home Office.

       The result? He was jailed for two years after being caught with ￡250,000 in cash, known to be the proceeds of crime, in September 2017.

       Then home secretary Priti Patel called for him to be deported to Albania and stripped of his UK citizenship, as it had been acquired through deception. But with his partner, another Albanian who gained UK citizenship in 2006, he had two daughters and a son and appealed his deportation.

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       Incredibly, he was supported by a judge at a lower-tier immigration tribunal, who argued it would be “unduly harsh” to deport his son or separate him from his father.

       While the appeal was granted, judge David Merrigan in the upper-tier tribunal has remitted the case to be reheard by a different judge in the lower tribunal in order to decide whether the singular issue of losing the option of chicken nuggets would really be “unduly harsh” on the 10-year-old. All of which is simply staggering.

       No wonder the rest of the world is laughing at the UK. Our immigration and criminal justice system is clearly not fit for purpose.