A RAPPER pal of fifty Cent is staying in a taxpayer-funded resort whereas claiming asylum.

Bang Em Smurf, actual identify Daniel Calliste, was jailed within the US following a shootout.

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He’s residing in a Novotel close to Stevenage, Herts.

Smurf is known to have arrived right here late final yr claiming he wanted “security from gangs” in his native Trinidad.

A supply stated: “It’s loopy he was let in after being deported from the US with a felony report for violent offences.

“His historical past is well-known. He’s being supported by the taxpayer.”

For asylum lodging, an applicant should tick a field to say they’d in any other case be destitute.

The 102-room, four-star Novotel, off the A1 close to Knebworth Home, is closed to the general public whereas housing refugees.

Smurf was born in Trinidad however moved to the US and started his rap profession at 15.

He was a part of the unique G-Unit rap outfit and stated to be 50 Cent’s head of safety.

He’s within the video for 2003 No 1 In Da Membership however they later fell out.

In 2004 Smurf served 3½ years for gun possession after a New York shootout.

50 Cent refused to pay his bail, resulting in each releasing “diss tracks”.

After his launch Smurf was deported to Trinidad.

He instructed us he got here to the UK as he had a cope with Common to show his 2018 memoir Knowledge of a Wolf: The G Behind the Unit into a movie.

Instagram photos present him within the UK from December and celebrating his forty fourth birthday on January 3 in Battersea, South London.

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He appeared on podcasts and at a boxing occasion at Harrow Leisure Centre in February.

That month, he met Lord Michael Hastings on the Lords, saying his journey was linked to younger folks’s psychological well being in Trinidad.

In March he launched clothes model The Business Pretend.

The Solar understands his software for asylum has been refused and he can be returned to Trinidad.

The price of housing these looking for refugee standing has ballooned to £5.5million a day.

Round 38,000 are presently based mostly in 210 accommodations, however the Dwelling Workplace is working an audit of the migrants to see if every is eligible for taxpayer-funded help.

It declined to touch upon particular person circumstances.

Smurf instructed our reporter: “There ain’t no story. You’re speaking to the horse’s mouth. I’m telling you, that’s pretend information.”

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Further reporting by Thomas Godfrey.

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