Dil­lian John­son, who was grant­ed hu­man­i­tar­i­an pro­tec­tion, is prepar­ing to move to Scot­land af­ter he was grant­ed his bio­met­ric res­i­dence per­mit in the Unit­ed King­dom on Mon­day.

John­son, an ex-friend of Chief Jus­tice Ivor Archie, fled the coun­try in De­cem­ber 2017 af­ter he was shot at his Gas­par­il­lo home. He claimed then that he was a vic­tim of a tar­get­ed hit.

He had ini­tial­ly ap­plied for asy­lum in the UK but was re­fused and in­stead grant­ed hu­man­i­tar­i­an pro­tec­tion for the next five years.

Ac­cord­ing to a let­ter ob­tained by Guardian Me­dia from UK sources, his MP Jes­si­ca Mor­den of New­port East, wrote to him in­di­cat­ing that he was of­fi­cial­ly grant­ed hu­man­i­tar­i­an pro­tec­tion by UK Visas and Im­mi­gra­tion.

The let­ter stat­ed that John­son was now free “to seek em­ploy­ment, ac­cess pub­lic funds and move to any town or city with­in the UK un­re­strict­ed.”

Mor­den al­so stat­ed in the let­ter: “You in­di­cat­ed your in­ten­tion to move to Scot­land and I wish you well with this re­lo­ca­tion.”

Guardian Me­dia con­tact­ed Mor­den’s of­fice and the of­fice man­ag­er who would on­ly give her first name is Lynn in­di­cat­ed,” We have no com­ment on this mat­ter.”

John­son was ques­tioned via email why the move to Scot­land?

He replied, “I al­ways had an avid in­ter­est to play the Scot­tish na­tion­al in­stru­ment which is the bag­pipes. I al­ways want­ed to vis­it the fol­low­ing places as it res­onates in­spi­ra­tion es­pe­cial­ly for writ­ing(sic) Loch Ness, Isle of Skye, Bat­tle of Ban­nock­burn, Tar­tans and Kilts, they al­so have some of the best brew­eries and beers in the world.”

Guardian Me­dia al­so ques­tioned whether his move had to do with on­go­ing threats on his life. He re­spond­ed, “I can rest as­sured that I will not be get­ting any un­want­ed guests as the UKVI and oth­er se­cu­ri­ty agen­cies have guar­an­teed my safe­ty which is of para­mount im­por­tance.”

Al­le­ga­tions sur­faced in 2017 that Chief Jus­tice Ivor Archie tried to in­flu­ence Supreme Court jus­tices to change their per­son­al state-pro­vid­ed se­cu­ri­ty in favour of a pri­vate se­cu­ri­ty com­pa­ny that em­ployed his “close friend” Dil­lian John­son, a con­vict­ed felon, as a con­sul­tant.