Petty criminal told: You can stay in UK

A petty criminal from Leeds has won his fight to stay in the UK after the Home Office backed down over plans to deport him to Australia.

Cain Staple, 31, was told he will now be allowed to hold a British passport despite being held as an illegal immigrant in Armley jail.

Home Office chiefs had refused to release him at the end of a 54-day sentence for car theft and were planning to deport him despite having a British mother and only living in Australia for the first four years of his life.