Government To Pay Rapist Damages

[ChillDoubt]

Why am I not really surprised, given where the ruling has come from?

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22080548

[Canary42]

Wouldn't have happened under Thatcher. Handling the Common Market was one of her good points.

[jackthehat]

///They said this was because the regular reviews required by the Secretary of State's published policy on the detention of foreign national prisoners were not carried out.///

Direct your anger at the people failing to do their jobs properly.

[ChillDoubt]

No anger jth, just incredulity.

Maybe the rapist will give some of his 'damages' to his victim?

[jackthehat]

The trouble is that it is the lazy option to blame *Europe* when these sorts of rulings occur, rather than call to task the real culprits, i.e. those not doing their jobs properly.

[horseshoes]

LOL Canary I was just thinking the same thing. She'd have had him on the first plane out!

[emmie]

perhaps that money would have been better to have been spent on the victim. Or a rape crises centre, what a load of botox.

[jno]

the government has to pay out because it detained someone illegally? Fine by me.

[Ric.ror]

Whats wrong with awarding a penny damages?

[ChillDoubt]

To me, the real culprit is the rapist/child molester who ought not have been here in the first place!

[McMouse]

This guy had served his sentence and should have been released. End of.

[jackthehat]

He shouldn't, but he was.

And *we* shouldn't be satisfied that he was detained here illegally, either.

Perhaps if everyone associated with this particular system got their fingers out, as they are paid to do, he could have been shipped out earlier?

[ChillDoubt]

This guy had served his sentence and should have been released. End of.
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What, at the risk of doing it again whilst awaiting lengthy deportation proceedings?
He ought to have been deported the minute he completed his sentence and should have been on a plane within 24 hours.

[jackthehat]

Agreed.

But he wasn't and in addition to asking why that was, we ought to ask why the published policies weren't followed, either.

[ChillDoubt]

Perhaps if everyone associated with this particular system got their fingers out, as they are paid to do, he could have been shipped out earlier?
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Doubtless they did but as ever there are some who practice law who relish taking on the government in these cases and commence what they know will be lengthy deportation battles.
Shame they couldn't direct their skills towards the victim in the first instance, but then there's not much money in that for them.

[youngmafbog]

The real problem is 'Europe' preventing us from easily getting shot of undesirables.

Saying we should blame someone for bloody paperwork is nuts. That is not the real problem.

Reading on here though many wold like him out on the street to do it again no doubt.

[jackthehat]

YMB - If there are legal procedures to be carried out............and they are *not* and that is the basis of the Court Award, just who would you say is to blame?

[brionon]

Canary What has this to do with Europe ?

[ChillDoubt]

IMHO but if I may be so bold I believe Canady is highlighting Mrs T's wider stance on Europe i.e. she would not hand over the reins of the UK to a Central European body nor allow the ECHR as much power over matters involving deportation of foreign criminals and terror suspects.

I may be wrong though in that assumption!

[ChillDoubt]

Canady? Canary even!

[SeaJayPea]

Interesting. He got eight years in 1998. Assuming he behaved himself, he'd have been up for release in 2002. That means that he's been kept in detention for 11 years after the end of his sentence. And they've given him just £1278 in damages. Sort of shows what they think of this individual when others have been given 20 or 30 grand for each year inside.

I'm more concerned about the bit at the end which says that a UN driver and a translator for US forces can be shipped to Afghanistan and that they are under no threat from the Taliban.

That one's scary.