Convicted AK47 gunman who fled Albania for UK uses legal loophole to avoid deportation

A GUNMAN who fled to the UK after sparking terror with an AK-47 assault rifle has used a legal loophole to stay.

Isak Buna, 29, wounded a man with a ricocheted bullet after blasting a volley of shots into the air during a row.

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He told his rival: “Bother me then you will learn who I am.

I am going to f*** up you and all your family.”

After the 2013 rampage in Zenisht, Albania, Buna was convicted of threats to kill and possession of illegal weapons in his absence.

He was sentenced to five years, four months’ jail but fled to London.

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Cops in his homeland issued a wanted poster and the Met Police arrested him in January.

But Albanian authorities were blocked from extraditing him after his lawyers at Westminster magistrates’ court successfully argued it was now too late to prosecute.

A Home Office spokeswoman said: “The Home Office has worked with the Metropolitan Police National Extradition Unit on Mr Buna’s case.

“Due to the statute of limitations laws in Albania the extradition request was removed

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The Home Office did not say if Buna was seeking asylum or had been granted leave to remain.

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