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UK taxpayers spending multi-million pound 'bribe' to send foreign criminals home | The British taxpayer is reportedly paying up millions of pounds a year to "bribe" foreign murderers, rapists and other prisoners to go home after a 60 per cent
jump in cases, The Telegraph reports. One in four of the foreign criminals who
were deported last year only went home after being offered a voluntary return
package worth up to 5,000 pounds. It means ministers spent 3.4 million pounds
of public money encouraging offenders who have no right to be in Britain to leave.
It emerged earlier this week that one of those was a Malaysian migrant who killed
a 17-month-old baby. Some foreign prisoners can already have up to nine months
slashed from their sentence if they are willing to go home. The Facilitated Returns
Scheme was launched in October 2006 and encourages overseas offenders to return
to their home country once they have passed the point they would be released if
British. It is aimed at preventing lengthy and expensive legal battles against
deportation. Under a separate early removal scheme, foreign prisoners can be freed
up to 270 days in advance of their release date so long as they are willing to
return home. |
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