Dressed head to toe in a matching Gucci outfit in front of a £1,100 per night beachside suite at a five star Cornish spa hotel, Dorian Puka looks like a man without a care in the world.
Besides the electronic monitoring tag on his left ankle, the 28-year-old could be any other wealthy holidaymaker.
However, the prolific burglar shouldn’t be in Britain at all having already been deported twice back to his native Albania following a string of crimes across suburban London.
He was first jailed for nine months for attempting to break into a property in Twickenham in 2016 before being deported the following year.
But within 12 months he returned to the UK, where he carried out a spree of break-ins.
Dorian Puka (pictured) was first jailed for nine months for attempting to break into a property in Twickenham in 2016
Despite being deported he managed to once again gain entry to the UK, carrying out another and was jailed for another thee-and-a-half years
It is unclear how he re-entered the country. He was eventually apprehended, wearing an expensive stolen watch, by a plain clothes officer in Surbiton, south-west London.
Puka was jailed for three-and-a-half years but his offending did not stop once behind bars.
He gained notoriety by posting photos on a smuggled phone with prisoners associated with organised crime groups.
In one he posed with a fellow convict and wrote: ‘From H.M.P. we jump in V.I.P.!!!!’- but he has continued to live in the UK unimpeded.
He was deported in March 2020, but was back by the following January. Social media posts showed he had travelled via Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands.
At the time the information was passed to the Home Office but despite warning he ‘should be prepared to face prosecution and removal’ he has continued to live in the UK unimpeded.
This week the MailOnline tracked him down to the Carbis Bay Hotel near St Ives, Cornwall – which previously hosted world leaders including Boris Johnson and Joe Biden at the 2021 G7 summit.
We questioned him while he sipped coffee with a female companion in The Orangery restaurant.
He told our reporter he had come for a birthday trip and the Home Office knew where he was there.
He then changed his story, saying he was only there to use the swimming pool.
He said: ‘So what? They [The Home Office] know everything so why do you need to know? I have a tag on my leg, what is the problem?
Despite being deported once more in March 2020, he was back by following January. This week the Daily Mail tracked him down to the Carbis Bay Hotel near St Ives, Cornwall (pictured)
When asked what his victims would think about him staying at the lavish hotel, which is estimated to have cost £5,000 he said: ‘It doesn’t matter what people think’
‘I have problems in my home country. I have a tag on my leg, they know everything so why are you disturbing me. I don’t know what you want from me, you are disturbing me.’
Asked how he felt his victims might react to him staying at the hotel, he replied: ‘It doesn’t matter what people think.’
Puka – who three days earlier shared a picture of him in the hotel’s infinity pool and another of him in one a luxurious bathrobe – then tried to claim that questioning him was racist and demanded the police be called.
The stay is likely to have cost Puka at least £5,000 – a princely sum for a man whose two deportations prevent him from working legally in the UK.
Despite this, he appears able to pay for a flurry of high-end creature comforts, including fast cars, golfing holidays, and shisha bars – all documented on his Instagram for other would-be thieves to see.
For the new Labour Home secretary, Puka presents a significant challenge as her civil service mandarins have so far shown little interest in the serial burglar despite the Daily Mail offering them a dossier of evidence on his activities.
When authorities failed to locate Puka, we pieced together information from social media, newspaper clippings and intelligence from the Albanian community to track him to a £250,000 two-bed terraced flat in Hounslow, west London.
When presented with our findings, mandarins vowed to arrest him – insisting that ‘foreign criminals who violate our laws and abuse our hospitality have no place in the UK’.
His offending didn’t stop when he was behind bars either, as he gained a reputation by posting photos on a smuggled phone with prisoners associated with organised crime groups (pictured left: Dorian Puka)
Despite being deported twice he lives in the UK freely, enjoying a lavish lifestyle filled with designer clothes and a fleet of luxury cars including a £130,000 Mercedes G-Wagon
Alhough he posted a clip of himself wearing a Capita ankle tag in October, neither Scotland Yard or the Home Office were able to account for it (pictured: outside Carbis Bay Hotel)
Since returning to Britain, he has shown off a fleet of luxury cars that includes a £75,000 Porsche Cayenne, a £130,000 Mercedes G-Wagon, £155,000 Bentley Bentayga, a £55,000 BMW X5, a £46,000 Mercedes AMG, and a £35,000 Jaguar XF.
Other social media posts showed him enjoying evenings at local shisha bars, treating relatives to high-end meals, and unboxing a brand-new Patek Philippe watch – all without a Border Force agent or policeman in sight.
Puka’s flagrant breach of immigration controls is the latest illustration of UK border failings.
