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Courts letting dangerous foreign criminals stay on in the UK |
An investigation has revealed uncovered scores of cases where offenders from overseas, including killers
and sex attackers, have been able to stay on in Britain despite strenuous attempts
by the Government to deport them, reports The Telegraph. Criminals have reportedly
been using the 1998 Human Rights Act to avoid being sent back to their homelands
– despite a pledge by Prime Minister Gordon Brown to remove any foreigner who
breaks the law. In cases thought to have cost the taxpayer hundreds of thousands
of pounds, immigration judges have overturned attempts by the Home Office to remove
at least 50 foreign criminals from the country in the past 12 months, after lawyers
argued that deporting them would breach their human rights. In July 2007, shortly
after becoming prime minister, Brown told foreign nationals to "play by the rules
or face the consequences", warning: "If you commit a crime you will be deported
from our country." Yet in several cases, criminals were allowed to remain in the
UK despite courts acknowledging that they pose a danger to the public. The 50
cases, which were all rigorously opposed by the Home Office in court, include
15 criminals with convictions for violent crime, four sex offenders and 13 with
drug convictions. The total is likely to represent only the tip of the iceberg
because they were all heard at the second tier of appeal, and many more criminals
could have won the right to remain here at the lower level. Official figures are
not available, according to the Home Office and the courts. |
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