UPDATE: Zimbabwe policeman is denied asylum in Britain... but Robert Mugabe torturer can stay

As previously reported: Guy Taylor's British great-grandfather fought for Britain in the Anglo Boer War and on the Somme before the family moved to Zimbabwe. Guy Taylor has now sought refuge in Britain, where he applied for asylum, fearing a return to Zimbabwe would leave him facing persecution, as a former policeman and member of the MDC.
Taylor's application for asylum was however dismissed by the immigration judges (he has since refiled new claims).
Taylor's case provoked fury as it occurred after the Immigration Judges decision to allow Phillip Machemedze, one of Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF torturers to stay in the UK indefinitely.
Machemedze, who joined the CIO in 1996, arrived in the UK in 2000 after he had “enough of the torture”, he told an immigration tribunal.
He admitted to smashing the jaw of an MDC activist with pliers before pulling out his tooth and stripping another naked and threatening to force him to rape his daughters if he did not give information.
He also confessed to electrocuting, slapping, beating and punching "to the point of being unconscious" a white farmer suspected of giving money to the MDC, and to "putting salt into the wounds" of a female MDC member who was imprisoned in an underground cell before being stripped naked and whipped.







