Britain Ousts Syrian in Flap Over a Flat
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LONDON — A Syrian diplomat expelled from Britain for refusing to vacate an apartment flew back to Syria on Sunday and said he was treated unfairly and will never return.
“I don’t ever intend to come back--absolutely not,” said Ahmed Wallid Rajab, the Syrian second secretary, who used his diplomatic immunity to ignore a court order to leave a three-bedroom apartment that he had occupied for three years, even though he had actually rented it for only six months.
Landlord John Chaffey, made homeless by the long legal dispute, wrote to Queen Elizabeth II about the problem, and the Foreign Office expelled Rajab for breaching his diplomatic immunity.
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