HebrideanHecateOnce again, we see Britain’s immigration judges prioritising the safety and wellbeing of a foreign criminal over that of law-abiding citizens. Our membership of the ECHR, in particular, continues to be a gift for sex offenders who want to avoid deportation.
Take the case of the Congolese paedophile, known as ‘MD’. In 2020, he was imprisoned for three years for offences such as sexual penetration and sexual assault against his stepdaughter and two other young girls in his family. Back in November, the Telegraph reported that he had been allowed to remain in the UK on human-rights grounds. Despite the depraved nature of his crimes, an immigration tribunal ruled that removing him from the UK would breach his ‘right to family life’, as enshrined in Article 8 of the ECHR. Apparently, deportation would have had a negative impact on the wellbeing of MD’s wife and their three biological children (who were not victims of the sexual offences).
Similarly, a Romanian national who hid the fact that he had a rape conviction in his homeland was also able to use human-rights law to avoid deportation. ‘ZA’ served almost seven years in jail for rape in Romania and was also wanted for a driving offence in Bucharest when he absconded to Britain.
Britain’s woefully lax borders, dysfunctional human-rights regime and activist judiciary are putting the British public at an intolerable risk of harm. What does a sex offender have to do these days to get himself deported?
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