An Albanian small boat migrant began dealing crack cocaine after fleeing his luxury asylum hotel.

Elvis Zoto, 22, gloated on social media about entering the UK illegally and even posted a photo of his Home Office registration form showing his arrival in Dover in 2022.

Approached shortly afterwards by a Mail on Sunday reporter posing as migrant still in France, he said the journey to the UK had been easy, and revealed he had already fled his asylum hotel by climbing out of a window.

Shocking new details about his case have now emerged in a High Court judgment that finally gave the green light to his deportation - a whole three years after he first arrived in Britain.

Campaigners said his case is the latest evidence of the 'desperate' need to reform the immigration system.