November 2006 – Thomas Scott Gbojueh enters Australia on a refugee visa. Less than four months later he commits the first two child sex offences against a 12-year-old girl.
November 2008 – Gbojueh is convicted of rape and having sex with a person under the age of 14. He is sentenced to six-and-a-half years’ jail.
June 2009 – Gbojueh is acquitted of rape on appeal, but pleads guilty having sex with the underage girl, who became pregnant and needed an abortion. He is jailed for 27 months.
February 2011 – Then-immigration minister Chris Bowen cancelled Gbojueh’s visa. Gbojueh is detained.
April 2011 – Gbojueh is released after the Administrative Affairs Tribunal sets aside the decision and reinstates the visa. The AAT finds Gbojueh has a ‘well-founded fear of persecution’ in Liberia due to his ethnicity
July 2011 – Mr Bowen again cancels Gbojueh’s visa and he is placed in detention again.
August 2011 – Gbojueh takes the matter to the Federal Court, seeking judicial review.
March 2012 – The Federal Court orders Gbojueh’s visa reinstated, and he is released from detention.
January 2014 – Gbojueh’s refugee visa is cancelled again, this time by minister Scott Morrison.
February 2014 – The Liberian refugee again seeks judicial review.
August 2014 – This time the Federal Court rules against Gbojueh.
September 2014 – Gbojueh again seeks judicial review.
March 2015 – The Full Federal Court rules in favour of Mr Morrison.
May 2016 – Gbojueh lodges an application for a protection visa.
August 2016 – The protection visa application is refused, but Gbojueh appeals with the AAT.
April 2017 – The AAT upholds the decision to refuse Gbojueh’s protection visa application.
July 2018 – Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton order Gborjueh deported back to Liberia.