Given that he sounds 3/4 dead and court orders are being ignored, I doubt he can manage. My opinion of the UK has been in free fall since the cattle-prods-for-use-on-humans exports a few years back (I can't find a good link right now), this hardly helps.

Not sure if it applies here, but the EU Charter states:

  When an individual enters the EU for the purpose of claiming asylum,
  s/he is required to claim in the first EU country that s/he seeks enters.

So probably not elsewhere in EU.