Foreign offenders jailed for crimes in the UK could be deported as soon as they are convicted rather than serve their sentences in Britain under plans being considered by ministers to tackle prison overcrowding.
Shabana Mahmood, the Justice Secretary, told MPs on Tuesday that she was considering freeing foreign offenders from jail earlier than currently allowed under the law so they can be immediately deported.
One option would be to exile them on conviction and ban them from returning to the UK. If they came back they would face being returned to jail to serve their full prison term.
People always, but always, react. Actually want to go home? Do something trivial and get a free flight….
“freeing foreign offenders from jail earlier than currently allowed under the law so they can be immediately deported”.
Look, we all know they will be released from jail then disappear into the ether because the ‘Department of Deportation’s ( does a thing actually exist?) doesn’t have the resources after 14 years of Tory austerity…..
LoL
Not a judge in the land will allow anyone to be deported. In fact ex prisoners will be presented with kittens so that they can claim “family dependents”.
Funny how different the problem looks when you’re in office and it its your electoral neck the baying mob is after compared to virtue signalling from the opposition benches.
Fine by me. Such instances would probably be rare. They just have to make sure they can’t get back in, by sorting out the borders too
I suppose it depends on how likely they are to get back in, and re-offend.
Assuming they actually get moved out of the country. As opposed to being told to book a flight and then let go.
I recall Air Pinochet did much the same. Though they saved on landing fees.
I’m surprised this proposal hasn’t been considered before. A prisoner costs more than an Eton boarding education, and costs in Albania, Poland, Pakisatan, Libya, etc are surely lower.
A nice little earner for the countries which send us their criminals.
We do have reciprocal agreement with countries to allow Foreign National Offenders (FNO) to serve their sentence in their home country. Problem is a lot of these people don’t want to go home, so they choose to serve their sentence in the UK.
Lots of them have deportation orders served at the end of their sentence, but it’s a struggle to get rid of them. A few take the bribe of a few £1000s (and a free flight) to go, with the intention of just coming back again. Others will claim rights under Article 8 of the EHRC (the example given by Ottokring of being a kitty owner) and other will (claim to be) citizens of countries who won’t co-operate with repatriation of their citizens (Iran, Zim etc).
In other words, it’s a total shit show.
I’m reminded of the killing of Sara Sharif.
The family fled to Pakistan, then returned to the UK. I suppose they’d have to work for a living in Pakistan. Or maybe if they were convicted of murdering their daughter, the Pakis’d hang them.
Can you imagine the Grauniad’s pseudo-outrage if a minister called John Arkwright (let alone Marmaduke Twistleton-Wykeham-Fiennes) had proposed deporting ctiminals immediately upon comviction?