Convicted fraudster Kweku Adoboli has received a warm welcome by relatives after his arrival in Ghana.

The 38-year-old former UBS trader was deported on Wednesday from the UK, where he had lived for 26 years, despite a long campaign to keep him in Britain.

He arrived in Ghana on a Kenyan Airways flight, accompanied by five UK guards, and was met by members of his extended family at the airport.

Mr Adoboli served four years of a seven-year sentence for a £1.4bn ($1.8bn) fraud and was released in 2015.

Ghana’s Daily Graphic says when he arrived at the family home in Tema, an hour’s drive outside the capital, Accra, he was served with local dishes of “akple” and “fetridetsi” – plus a chilled beer.

The UK authorities say foreign nationals sentenced to more than four years in prison are subject to automatic deportation.

His supporters had argued that given the amount of time he had spent in the UK, he should have been entitled to British citizenship.