Violent thug who was deported to Romania found back in Dundee just 17 days later

Chef Dragos Henter was jailed last year for 32 months after threatening to slice a woman’s face to make her look like The Joker from the Batman films.

A violent offender who was deported to Romania was found back in Dundee just 17 days after being thrown out of the country. Chef Dragos Henter was jailed last year for 32 months after threatening to slice a woman’s face to make her look like The Joker from the Batman films.

Henter carried out a four-year campaign of harassment against a partner and was later caught in jail with illicit SIM cards. He was described as a danger to the public and was deported back to his home country on August 21 after completing his prison sentences.

But by September 7, Henter had managed to sneak back into the UK and was found to be driving around Dundee late at night while he was drunk. Officers who pulled him over carried out checks and found out that he had given them a false name. Further checks showed that he had come back to Scotland illegally.

Henter, 32, was jailed for four months after he admitted the driving offence last month and he was back in the dock at Dundee Sheriff Court on Friday to admit the immigration offence. He admitted knowingly entering the UK by unknown means, in breach of a deportation order. A source close to the case said Henter had told officials that he had spent about £10,000 to be smuggled back into the UK to return to his wife and children.

When he was quizzed by police, Henter told them that he planned to keep coming back to Scotland every time he got deported
to Romania. The court heard he has several previous convictions including domestic assaults, bullying and coercive control, prison breaches, and possession of offensive weapons.

Henter was jailed for 32 months for attacking his partner in a restaurant and had a further 163 days added for having three illicit SIM cards inside Perth prison. He pinned her down on a restaurant floor at knifepoint during a four-year campaign of violence and controlling abuse.

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Sheriff Alastair Carmichael said: “You are assessed as posing a danger. The charges represent a course of conduct of domestic abuse by you.”

Henter pulled a kitchen knife with a 10-inch blade on the woman, a taxi driver, during a four-year campaign of bullying against her. The court was told that the chef de partie grabbed the handbrake and steering wheel of her car repeatedly as she drove. She was so terrified of what her partner might do that when they went on a walk up Kinnoull Hill in Perth she stayed away from the edge in case he pushed her over it.

In February 2020, Henter told her he would slash her if she spoke to other men. Prosecutor Gavin Burton told the court: “He said that if he ever saw her speaking to another male he would get a screwdriver from his car and slash her across the face to make her look like The Joker. This made her extremely distressed.”

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