No excuses, Dave, end this Yuman Rites farce

WHAT are they waiting for? The Government must not waste another day in fulfilling its promise to repeal the appalling Yuman Rites Act. If ever a case screamed out for Britain to regain control of our own justice and immigration system, it is the three Libyan soldiers who are seeking asylum here despite being convicted sex offenders.

Replacing the European Convention with a British Bill of Rights was a key manifesto pledge by the Tories in both 2010 and at this year’s General Election.

During his first term, the Prime Minister said his Lib Dem Coalition partners wouldn’t let him withdraw from the system. Now he has an overall majority there’s no excuse, yet the issue has been kicked into the long grass again.

Meanwhile, foreign criminals, rapists and murderers continue to t ake advantage of our ludicrously generous asylum regime. The three Libyans were jailed for drunkenly molesting women on a night out in Cambridgeshire, where they were attending a training camp.

They stole some bikes and rode into town, where they proceeded to get legless. (I thought Muslims were forbidden from drinking alcohol.) They then showed their legendary respect for women — by exposing themselves, grabbing one woman’s breasts and bottom and trying to stick their hands up another’s skirt.

On the same day as these attacks, two other Libyan squaddies raped a man in a park in Cambridge. Nice. There’s gratitude for you. The first three were sent to prison in May, but have been released already after just four months — another outrage which again illustrates the slippery dishonesty of our sentencing guidelines.

One had been given a year, the other two ten months — pretty lenient for sexual assault in the first place. But their headline sentences were meaningless, and they were let out of jail after serving between a third and half of their time. All three are now in a secure immigration centre, awaiting deportation.

They have, predictably, had no trouble finding themselves specialist lawyers — on legal aid, natch — who are prepared to argue that to send them back to Libya would be in breach of their divine human rights.

They allege that if they were returned home they could face persecution and ‘disgrace’. Who cares? Their l awyers f urther maintain that if they were deported to Libya their lives would be at risk from Izal terrorists.

Oh dear, how sad, never mind. They’re professional soldiers, for heaven’s sake. They’re trained to fight. That’s what they were doing in Cambridgeshire.

It should also be pointed out that they were supposed to be on ‘our’ side.

So what does that say about the tens of thousands of other young North African and Middle Eastern men heading our way, many of them reported to be Izal killers, about whom we know nothing?

Furthermore, the Government went ahead with the ill-advised training programme despite a stern warning from the cross-Whitehall Libya security group that i mporting hundreds of foreign soldiers would pose ‘significant immigration, security and reputational risks’.

Call Me Dave was still in his messianic Tony Blair Lite, Saviour of the Middle East phase. (Remember his famous Blair tribute act, the absurd Tahrir Square walkabout in Egypt?) So he simply waved such genuine concerns aside. As you can imagine, the victims of these three sex offenders are horrified at the prospect their attackers could soon be free to walk the streets of Cambridge again.

But I’d have thought the odds of the Libyans winning their battle to remain were pretty good. Better than that, probably.

Britain has a glorious track record of rolling out the red carpet for foreign criminals, convicted of serious crimes both at home and abroad.

A few months ago, the Mail spotlighted ten of the worst cases. These included a Congolese paedophile who r aped and molested a succession of young girls in this country, but was allowed to stay because he has two children and therefore a ‘right to family life’.

So what happens if he gets out of jail and rapes again?

THERE was also the Somali asylum seeker who raped a pregnant woman at knifepoint. He, too, was granted leave to stay because his mother lives here. Family life, again. They were among a delightful assortment of convicted war criminals, murderers and sex offenders all still here, thanks to the taxpayerfunded yuman rites industry.

We are now told that it will be next year before the Government gets round to working out how to tackle the thorny question of Britain’s withdrawal from the Act.

Ministers have promised to ‘consult widely’, which means — with even some sections of the Tory party opposed, incredibly, to scrapping the Act — that draft legislation may never see the light of day in the lifetime of this parliament.

Meanwhile, the likes of these Libyan sex offenders will continue to exploit their ‘ human rights’ to remain in Britain, aided and abetted by posturing politicians and the rapacious yuman rites lobby. And in the event of them actually losing and getting deported to Libya, they shouldn’t despair too much.

The way things are going, all they have to do is hop on a boat to Italy, and they’ll be back here claiming asylum in no time.

It’s their yuman rites, innit?