Lawyers land killer blow to UK justice
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, a child rapist, other sex offenders, and drug and gun dealers due to a faulty mobile phone mast is the stuff of comedy writers.
However, it really is no laughing matter. Last week more than 40 foreignborn criminals were due to be deported back to their native Jamaica. Most convicted of sexual or violent crimes.
If you think we’ve already got enough serious offenders without having to worry about those we can deport, you’d have been celebrating. But you’d not be reckoning with the lawyers who show they 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 them temporarily escaped deportation and might 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 returned home because the case was accepted that they pose a real danger and, candidly, we’re all a lot safer without them.
A look at the crimes some of them committed has you agreeing with those judges. Here are just a few of the notorious 25 allowed to stay – 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 had sex with a 15-year-old girl while on bail. Another was a child rapist – between them, they had been sentenced to 136 years in jail.
Yet because there was a problem with an O2 mobile phone mast near the detention centre near Heathrow where they were held, the Court of Appeal ruled they had not been allowed full access to legal representation so could not be booted out. Never mind that there were fixed-line phones in the centre, this absurd excuse was upheld.
What a shame we can’t know the names of the judges involved. Maybe some of these low-lifes could move in next door to them.
The legal process to secure a deportation is a lengthy one. The judge has to
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AT FIRST glance, the Queen must have had a right royal shudder when she saw this picture. One of her grandsons, and a future monarch, confined to a wheelchair and seemingly being throttled by his father, the future king. Another annus horribilis on the way?
Fortunately, the truth was far more palatable as this pair of princes were at a service rehabilitation centre in Loughborough and
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consider the cases so grave they warrant the person convicted to face deportation at the end of their sentence. When that time arrives, an “intent to deport order” is served and the prisoner again gets full legal representation.
Then it moves to deportation proceedings where again they get legal support. In some cases the authorities have had to satisfy up to half a dozen judges, boards or hearings that these prisoners should still be sent home.
Having exhausted all appeals, this is now a lifeline to allow them to restart the process and appeal again! basketball game, so was being teased by his frustrated dad.
What this picture shows though is the tremendous relationship between father and son. Many have hinted at tensions between Charles and his two sons but speaking as someone who has been fortunate and proud to have also raised two boys, let me assure you this shows the genuine warmth and easy relationship between father and son and is something to celebrate.
‘What a shame we can’t know the names of the judges’
Campaigners claimed this was akin to the treatment of thewindrush victims in 2018, since some of the deportees had come to the UK as children. But this lot are a bunch of (often) hardened criminals. The sufferers in the Windrush shambles were wrongly detained, denied their legal rights and unjustly deported – or threatened with it – and had committed no crimes!
Earning hefty tax-funded fees, these lawyers talk of a historic legal landmark. It’s nothing of the sort. It’s a likely “get out of jail card” for those who should lose the right to live here.