Snoop Dogg gets permission to enter Britain
March 4th, 2010 - 11:30 pm ICT by IANS
London, March 4 (IANS) American Rapper Snoop Dogg has won a legal battle to get entry into Britain, three years after government officials banned him.
The hip-hop star, real name Calvin Broadus, incurred the wrath of immigration officials in 2006 when he was arrested following a fracas at London’s Heathrow Airport. In 2007, he was denied entry into the country, with authorities arguing his previous convictions for drugs and firearms offences made him a threat, reports contactmusic.com.
Snoop Dogg launched a legal challenge, urging stars including David Beckham and Sir Paul MCCartney to help get the ban overturned. It was lifted in 2008, but government officials took the case to the Court of Appeal, where it was decided the judge who reversed the ruling may have “misinterpreted the test of exclusion”.
He refused to give up and the case went to a U.K. Asylum and Immigration Tribunal on Friday, with the star’s lawyers urging officials to take into consideration his work as a high-school football coach and appearances on family-friendly TV shows, including The View and his Father Hood reality series.
And the singer was finally successful - two senior immigration judges decided border authorities were wrong to deny the star entry.
The ruling was released to both parties on Monday and has paved the way for Broad to return to Britain.
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