Akindoyin Akinshipe

[flip_flop]

Following Mr Akinshipe's release from prison for the rape of a 13 year old, he has been fighting deportation back to his home country of Nigeria.

The European Court of Human Rights have ruled he cannot be deported because he has a right to a private and family life, and during his fight against deportation has developed 'social ties' with Britain.

Mr Akinshipe is a single man with no children.

Am I alone in thinking this is a bizarre ruling?

[missnemesis]

IMO flip the ECHR cause more problems than they solve i.e. this ridiculous scenario.

Send the barsteward back whence he came and let the Nigerians deal with him.

[ummmm]

No, you're not alone.

[naomi24]

I wouldn't call it bizarre. I'd call it absolutely crackers!

Family or no family, he should be put on the first plane back to Nigeria!

[emmie]

Madness, i believe someone else posted something similar recently.

[emmie]

http://www.theanswerb.../Question1059408.html

[BrainsTracy]

Read my answer here:
http://www.theanswerb.../Question1059654.html
We don't actually have any human rights laws.

[sandyRoe]

The judges must consider his family to be his mother and siblings. If send back to Nigeria he's lose contact with them.

[emmie]

would anyone care. I don't suppose the girl he raped would.

[Zeuhl]

It might be valid to add that though he committed a terrible crime, he was only 15 at the time.

[emmie]

Zeuhl, i wish i could say something to that remark, but i can't, i would be off this site like a shot.

[Zeuhl]

Why. Which part of my factually accurate post would prompt an inappropriate reaction?

[sandyRoe]

He's in much the same boat as Learco Chindamo. Both have abused our hospitality and will continue to enjoy it.

[Zeuhl]

I might add, the reason for my post was to redress an omission in the OP

<<Mr Akinshipe's release from prison for the rape of a 13 year old>>

which might have allowed people to infer that an adult male had raped a 13 year old child

when in fact a 15 year old child had raped a 13 year old child.

I think most people would judge those two circumstances differently without necessarily excusing either one.

[cathfromsaron]

not alone BUT there are so many 'human rights' lawyers willing to represent just anyone with a shilling ...

[emmie]

Both this man, and Chindamo, who incidentally committed another crime, so not sure where he is currently, in prison or out, would have the privilege of living in Britain revoked, so fast as make your head spin. Those that despoil this country should have no rights, they should be got shot of, the rapists, murders who are foreign nationals, family or no. As to the rape of the young girl, well being a 15 year old male, was mature enough i would say, not a child, not by a long way.

[Zeuhl]

em

By definition (including legally), a 15 year year old is a child, a minor.

If you choose to disregard that perhaps you also disregard the fact that the girl was only 13 and believe her age makes no difference. Personally I think it does in both instances.

[emmie]

if a 15 year old male raped your 13 year old daughter would you excuse it in any way because he was a minor. Let's hope he lives an exemplary life.

[Everhelpful]

em10,I am with you all the way on this one.

[flip_flop]

Zeuhl's entirely factual comment that Mr Akinshipe was 15 is entirely irrelevant.

There is a gulf of difference between a 13 year old girl and a 15 year old boy.