A FOREIGN paedophile has won the right to stay in Britain after claiming his human rights would be breached if he was deported.

Zulfar Hussain, 48, abducted and sexually exploited two vulnerable girls, both under 16, while plying them with drugs, after coming to Britain from Pakistan and settling in Blackburn, Lancashire.

He was jailed for five years in August 2007 at Preston Crown Court.

As a foreign national who has committed a serious crime in the UK, he was due to be handed over to the UK Border Agency for deportation to Pakistan on his release from custody.

Instead, he lodged an appeal against deportation and was granted leave to remain by a judge at a tribunal hearing earlier this month.

Yesterday, the Home Office said it would seek to appeal against the decision, to try to overturn the ruling.

Hussain is believed to be in an immigration removal centre pending the outcome of the latest Home Office appeal.

Qaiser Naveed, 34, from Burnley, who was jailed alongside Hussain for the same offences, has not appealed and will be deported to Pakistan.

Both were ordered to sign the sex offenders’ register for life and banned for life from associating with girls under 16.