£110,000 for teen sex attack refugee kept locked up for too long
up to keep the public safe. In the end we let them out so they are free to offend again and give them a £110,000 bonus.
“The primary duty of a government is to protect its innocent people.”
Central London County Court heard Bah was a teenager when he arrived in Britain 10 years ago to join his refugee father.
Staggering
In February 2011 he was jailed for 18 months after being convicted of sexually assaulting the 16-year-old girl. He was also placed on the sex offenders register for 10 years.
In 2014 he was jailed again for two years for a second sexual assault.
The court heard the then home secretary Theresa May signed a deportation order against him in December 2011, not realising he was entitled to be treated as a refugee.
As a result, Bah was wrongly held in detention for 14 months between January 2012 and March 2013.
He was unlawfully detained again “pending deportation”, this time for seven months, until June 2015.
Judge Madge concluded that had Home Office officials behaved in a competent manner, the need to award Bah damages would not have arisen.
John O’Connell, of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, said: “Taxpayers will be disappointed at this staggering example of government incompetence.”
A Home Office spokesman said last night: “We are now considering the judgment but this case does not change the legality of Mr Bah’s status in the UK.”