article_snippet: Branko Loncar, 55, won a long legal battle against being returned to Croatia to serve four years in prison for attempted murder .
article_snippet: Branko Loncar, 55, has won a long legal battle against being returned to Croatia to serve four years in prison for attempted murder, despite committing further crimes, including an assault, while living in London.
article_snippet: Branko Loncar earlier won asylum after complaining Branko Loncar had to flee Croatia because of anti-Serb discrimination – and
article_snippet: his first successfully fought against his extradition from Britain, arguing that his had a new Serbian ‘partner’ in Britain – who actually lives a hundred miles away – and that his now had grandchildren in London.
article_snippet: The case began in 1994, amid the chaos of the Balkan wars, when Loncar, an ethnic Serb and former soldier in the Yugoslavian army, lived with his wife Mirjana and two sons in the village of Ostrovo.
article_snippet: In 1999 Loncar then flew to England with Loncar children and successfully claimed asylum, saying that Loncar ethnic Serbian children were discriminated against by Croatians at school – but also complaining of ‘local antipathy resulting from the death of Loncar wife’.
article_snippet: While Loncar began a life on benefits here, Croatia’s supreme court in 2000 ordered a retrial, with Loncar’s village now a part of Croatia, and the following year Loncar was convicted in Loncar absence of attempted murder.
article_snippet: Croatia, a member of the European Union, some years later sought Loncar’s extradition, and in 2006 British police arrested Loncar.
article_snippet: right to a family life’ clause, judges said Loncar had ‘been in a relationship with the same partner since prior to 2006, although judges do not live together’.
article_snippet: Far from living together, the Daily Mail has discovered that ‘partner’ helping provide him with a ‘family life’ to maintain here is an ethnic Serb born in Britain and living 100 miles from him in Leicester.
highlights_snippet: Branko Loncar, 55, moved to UK after being cleared of murdering his wife .
  
highlights_snippet: his won asylum by claiming his fled country due to anti-Serb discrimination .
  
highlights_snippet: lawyers said his had right to family life with new Serbian partner in UK .
  