Monsters get a crazy reprieve

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IF it wasn’t so serious, it would make you roar with laughter.

That we were unable to boot out of the country a “brutal” killer, a “devious” rapist, plus assorted other sex offenders and drug and gun dealers due to a faulty phone mast is the stuff of comedies like The Thick Of It.

However, on this occasion it really is no laughing matter.

Last week, more than 40 foreign-born criminals were due to board a plane to be deported to their native Jamaica.

Most had been convicted of sexual or violent crimes.

If you think we have got enough serious offenders in the country without having to worry about those we can deport, you would have been celebrating the news.

But you would not be reckoning with the seemingly endless list of lawyers who know everything about the human rights of these vile criminals, but little about the responsibility of their actions in seeking to keep them here.

An 11th-hour reprieve meant 25 of the

Jamaican nationals escaped deportation and they could be out on bail in weeks.

Remember, the first duty of any government is the protection of its citizens and these criminals were only cleared to be sent home because it was accepted that they pose a real danger.

Here are just a few of the notorious 25

Jamaicans allowed to remain in the UK: Killer Fitzroy Daley stabbed an innocent man in the back as he was walking away from an altercation outside a pub.

Predator Fabian Henry raped a 17-year-old girl twice and abducted and sexually attacked a 15-year-old girl while out on bail. Another was a child rapist.

Between them all, the men had been sentenced to 136 years.

Yet because there was a problem with an O2 mast near the detention centre where they were held, the Court of Appeal ruled they were not allowed full access to legal representation. Never mind that there were fixed-line phones in the centre.

Campaigners, inset, claimed this was akin to the treatment of the Windrush victims in 2018. That was plain nonsense.

The victims of the Windrush shambles were people who were wrongly detained, denied their legal rights and unjustly threatened with deportation. They had committed no crimes.

Well-paid lawyers talk of the reprieve handed to the 25 crooks this week as being an historic legal landmark. It is nothing of the sort.

It is a likely get-out-of-jail-free card for people who should have lost their right to live in this

country.