An evangelist who claimed to have created miraculous pregnancies through prayer is to be sent back to Kenya to face child abduction charges.
Gilbert Deya has fought a legal battle to stay in the UK since 2007, arguing anything else would breach his human rights.
Now the home secretary Theresa May has decided his extradition should go ahead.
The Kenyan government alleges he stole five children between 1999 and 2004.
Concerns were first aired about Mr Deya's conduct on the BBC Radio 4 investigative programme, Face the Facts in 2004.
Infertile or post-menopausal women who attended his church in Peckham, South London were told they would be having "miracle" babies.
But the babies were always "delivered" in backstreet clinics in Nairobi.
The Tottenham MP, David Lammy, had a husband and wife turn up at his constituency surgery who had been through it.
"The couple went to Africa, came back into the country with a child that the authorities found out was not theirs through a DNA test.
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