A Jamaican who committed a horrendous crime in the UK will not be returned to his home country because of the potential danger to his life. A tribunal ruled that this is because the man—who was granted anonymity—is bisexual. (Male homosexual relations are technically illegal in Jamaica, though the law is said not to have been enforced for more than 150 years. Cultural views are still harsh.) The Mail, however, cites Home Office evidence of him “only” dating women in Britain.
Not only will the man remain in the UK, he was also released from prison in 2021 after serving about half of a ‘seven-year’ sentence for raping a woman at a party.
A judge deemed him “incentivised not to re-offend by the threat of return to prison.” Though such a deterrent surely only works among those who understand what is and is not considered a wrongdoing—or, more correctly, an offence. Note that this 41-year-old “claimed” he didn’t know that having sex with a sleeping woman was wrong.
The blocking of his deportation “is testament to a political and judicial class who care more about the human rights of rapists than they do about the security of the British public,” said Robert Bates, research director at the Centre for Migration Control.
He told europeanconservative.com that “this monster clearly has no place in Britain.”
You would be hard pressed to find any right-minded person in the country who does not believe that he should be removed as soon as possible and could not care less what happens to him when he is returned to Jamaica.
Sadly this case is not an anomaly. There are thousands of foreign nationals in the UK who are eligible for deportation but remain present in our communities, serving as a constant reminder to victims that their safety comes a distant second to the wellbeing of foreign crooks.
Lurid details from another case late last year saw a convicted paedophile avoid deportation to India because this would be ‘too harsh’ on his children. A court has since criticised the fact “only passing references are made to the nature of the appellant’s offending”—three counts, no less, of distributing child sex abuse images—in the report which helped him remain in the country.
The Home Office, to its credit, worked in both cases for deportations. That said, its continued support for British membership of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)—which is understood to have helped at least the second offender stay put in the UK despite his crimes—suggests it didn’t work anywhere near hard enough.
