Former Barclays CEO Jes Staley failed on Thursday to skirt a lifelong banishment from the UK banking industry over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein — with a judge ruling the ban was an “inevitable consequence” of his association with the dead pedophile.

Jes Staley, the former chief executive of Barclays, has lost his battle to overturn a decision by the U.K.’s Financial Conduct Authority to ban him from holding senior management roles in the financial services industry after he misled the regulator about his links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.