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Bartosz Stanilaw Lukasz: 40 convictions and a removal order

Bartosz Stanilaw Lukasz built a 40-conviction Irish record spanning theft, assault, drugs, criminal damage, public order and road traffic offences. He asked for one last chance while removal was under consideration, then offended again. The High Court upheld the State’s decision.

Published 31 July 2026 · Remigration Ireland case ledger
40Irish convictions
2010–2015Recorded offending
4–7 monthsLater sentences
Removal orderChallenge failed

From first traffic offence to 40 convictions

The High Court identifies Lukasz as a Polish national resident in Ireland since early 2007. He first came to adverse Garda attention on 6 May 2010 over a traffic offence.

By 2015, he had 40 convictions. The judgment groups them across theft, road traffic, assault, threatening or abusive behaviour, possession of drugs for sale or supply, drug possession, intoxication, criminal damage, entering a building with intent to commit an offence, obstruction and failure to comply. It also records several periods in custody between 2010 and 2015.

Removal first sought while he served an assault sentence

GNIB sought his removal in December 2012 while he was serving four months for assault. He was notified in Cork Prison in January 2013 that the Minister proposed a removal order with a five-year exclusion period.

He asked for “one last chance”, referred to employment as a landscape gardener and carpenter and said job loss had led to alcohol abuse. Representations described a relationship with an Irish national, later reported to have ended, and courses completed in custody.

Rehabilitation claimed, then more offences

After his May 2014 release, representatives said he had moved from Tralee to Killarney and rehabilitated. The Minister made the removal order on 4 March 2015.

During the review, Gardaí reported that Lukasz had appeared again at Killarney District Court in May 2015 for intoxication, theft and criminal damage committed that March. He received four-to-seven-month sentences for theft and criminal damage. The Minister affirmed the removal order on 21 September 2015.

The High Court decision

Lukasz argued that convictions alone could not justify an EU citizen’s removal and that his conduct was not serious enough to meet the public-policy test. Ms Justice Faherty refused his challenge in July 2017.

The court held that the required EU-law test had been applied. Forty convictions were not treated as an automatic trigger: their cumulative effect, continued offending and recidivism supported the conclusion that his conduct represented a genuine and sufficiently serious threat affecting a fundamental interest of society.

Status and outcome limits

Lukasz was an EU citizen exercising free-movement rights, not an asylum applicant in the reviewed record. The case concerns the qualified public-policy power to remove an EU national; it does not support calling his original entry illegal. The judgment records an order and a failed challenge, but does not establish whether physical removal occurred, his present location or any later status.

Chronology

Public cost: repeated systems, no invented total

The judgment documents repeated Garda encounters, prosecutions, several custody periods, GNIB work, ministerial consideration and High Court litigation. It does not publish aggregate custody, legal-aid payments or administrative costs. There is no defensible person-specific total.

A later Irish Prison Service staffed-space benchmark is linked for context only. Applying it to vague “periods in custody” would create false precision.

Sources

Record checked: 31 July 2026. The court’s spelling “Stanilaw” is preserved. An order is not conflated with proof of physical removal.