A drill rapper who stood trial for murder is trying to dodge deportation to Jamaica by claiming the tropical climate would worsen his girlfriend's eczema.
Renaldo Orando Roberts, 27, who performs under the name 7Bellz, told an immigration tribunal that removing him would tear him away from his British partner and their two-year-old daughter.
His lawyers argued that his girlfriend, known only as P, could not simply follow him to Jamaica because the heat and humidity would leave cracks around her joints and heels and make it difficult to walk.
First-tier Tribunal Judge David Brannan found that moving to Jamaica would indeed make P's eczema worse and that it would be "unduly harsh" for her and the couple's young daughter to accompany Roberts.
But in a significant blow to the rapper, who has lived in Britain since he was three years old, the judge ruled that Roberts could instead be deported without them.
The tribunal found that while separating the family would leave his daughter growing up without her father present, the consequences were not sufficiently severe to outweigh the public interest in removing him.
The ruling comes only months after Roberts walked free from the Old Bailey following his acquittal over the murder of 20-year-old Jason Junior Romeo.
Romeo, known as LD, was stabbed to death following an altercation in February 2025.
Police initially launched a public appeal to trace Roberts, warning members of the public not to approach him and saying he had links across Hackney and Dagenham.
He was subsequently arrested, charged with murder and remanded in custody for around ten months while awaiting trial.
But a jury cleared Roberts and three other defendants in December.
A fifth man, Raynolph Asante, was convicted of Romeo's murder.
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The Jamaican national arrived in Britain on Christmas Eve 2002 when he was just three and has spent virtually his entire life in the UK.
But he has amassed a substantial criminal record stretching back to his teenage years.
An earlier immigration tribunal described his history as "appalling", recording offences involving cannabis, cocaine and heroin, handling stolen goods, knives, road traffic matters and resisting or obstructing police.
Among the most serious was his involvement as a teenager in a county-lines conspiracy to supply heroin and cocaine.
He was sentenced to two years and five months in October 2018 after a court found that he had played a significant role in the operation.
The same proceedings recorded that Roberts had previously been involved in "gang culture" and had himself been shot.
Roberts also received a 16-month sentence for possession of crack cocaine in 2018.
His offending continued even after the Home Office began attempting to deport him in 2021.
In April 2022, Roberts fled from police first on a bicycle and then on foot before officers saw him trying to dispose of an 18-inch zombie knife with a curved blade.
He struggled with the arresting officer and was also found carrying cannabis.
The sentencing judge nevertheless told him there was "simply no excuse" for carrying such a weapon.
He was jailed for 12 months.
Roberts had already lost an attempt to prevent his deportation in 2021, when another immigration judge ruled that the public interest in removing him outweighed his right to a family and private life in Britain.
But he remained in the country while further representations and human-rights claims were considered.
Roberts and P, who have been in a relationship since 2016, had a daughter in January 2024.
The tribunal heard that P suffers from serious eczema, uses steroid creams and has undergone light therapy.
Her condition can become so severe that cracks develop around her joints and heels, making walking painful, while stress can cause further flare-ups.
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