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Home Office 'moving to deport' rapist

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A convicted rapist from the Democratic Republic of Congo has won a court battle allowing him to marry and thus stay in the UK.

Immigration minister Phil Woolas told the Today programme that while he could not prevent Alphonse Semo getting married he would still be moving to deport him.

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