Man mistakenly awarded $1.1 bn over sex ban

A failed asylum seeker, who sought compensation for being banned from having sex with his girlfriend in prison, was awarded 750 million pounds (about $1.1 billion) in a baffling administrative blunder before being quickly corrected

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Rayden Kullem demanded the huge sum in compensation, claiming his human rights had been breached, The Sun reported Thursday.

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Incredibly, he temporarily won his claim because of a mix-up.

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A top judge then had to dismiss the "preposterous" claim at an urgent court hearing.

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Kullem is in Hull Prison awaiting deportation to Zimbabwe at the end of his sentence but the hearing did not reveal why he was jailed.u00a0

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