Gardaí: sick Chinese student can stay

A CHINESE student recovering from a heart transplant was yesterday given an eleventh-hour reprieve after gardaí made a u-turn on deporting him.

Liang Dong, or Eric, 26, was living in fear of being deported this week despite recently having a life-saving transplant in Dublin’s Mater Hospital.

However, despite the best efforts of hospital staff for several weeks to extend his student visa for humanitarian reasons, gardaí looked set to deport Liang until his case went public yesterday.