A preacher accused of trafficking children is fighting to stay in Britain after the Government tried to extradite him to his native Kenya for the third time in eight years.
Gilbert Deya, 64, who runs an evangelical church in Peckham, has been wanted in Kenya since 2004 over claims he stole five children.
He has said he can deliver “miracle babies” to post-menopausal or infertile women in Britain. The women, convinced they were pregnant, travelled to Kenya with his wife Mary where they “gave birth” in backstreet clinics and were then presented with a baby.
The infants are alleged to have in fact been taken from their real parents. More than 50 families in Nairobi have said their children were stolen.
Home secretaries Jacqui Smith and Theresa May ordered Deya’s extradition in 2008 and 2011 but he has fought a long legal battle.
Home Secretary Amber Rudd decided last month the extradition should go ahead but he has applied for a judicial review, the Home Office said this week. Deya has earlier denied wrongdoing and did not respond to attempts to contact him.
