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Good news for UK Snoop Dogg fans, the rapper is allowed to enter the country again, having finally had the ban enacted by immigration officials in 2007 lifted. Snoop was arrested in April 2006 following a fracas involving him and a number of members of his entourage in the first class lounge at Heathrow Airport in which seven policemen were injured. He spent a night in the cells before being released with a warning for using threatening behaviour. When he attempted to enter the country again for a tour a year later, he was blocked, with officials citing previous convictions for drugs and firearms offences as reasons for the indefinite ban. The rapper successfully had it lifted in 2008, but that decision was later reversed by the Court Of Appeal, where it was decided that the ruling judge may have "misinterpreted the test of exclusion" and it was decided that Snoop still posed "a risk to the public". However, it was revealed yesterday that the case was taken to the UK Asylum & Immigration Tribunal last Friday, who again lifted the ban, granting Snoop the right to come over here and do that rapping thing he seems to enjoy so much. His UK lawyer, Philip Trott, told The Sun: "The ruling is very good news for Snoop. But it's a shame it took five hearings for us to get to this stage". The UK Border Agency has issued a statement saying that it is "disappointed by the tribunal's decision in this case", adding: "We are studying the determination carefully and will take a decision whether to appeal (again)". Photo - Wikipedia Additional reporting by CMU Network
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