I Would Not Have Come To Britain If I Knew I Was Going To Be Locked Up.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3447407/I-not-come-Britain-knew-going-locked-says-Sudanese-migrant-facing-trial-walked-Channel-Tunnel.html

Could this be the answer to much of our problems?

Let it get around that we are no longer a soft touch, and that criminals will be locked up.

[jackthehat]

We owe it to ourselves and to potential immigrants, legal and otherwise, to make it more widely known *exactly* what they can expect, and what will be expected of them, if they manage to gain entry here.

[Gladeian]

Ridiculous to have even considered a prosecution for this offence. Should just have been sent straight back to France.

[Baldric]

///Judge Adele Williams then set a provisional trial date for June 20 before releasing Mr Haroun – who denies the charge - on bail at the end of the five-minute hearing.///

I wonder what are the chances of him turning up for the Trial?

[whiskeryron]

Because of the ridiculous nonsense of the EU situation of no borders what crime did this guy actually commit ? If by law ( EU) there are no longer borders between countries then surely one can wander at will wherever.

[Baldric]

///Mr Haroun is now living in state-subsidised accommodation in east Kent and is able to collect £36.95 from his local post office each week.///

While some Ex UK Servicemen, that's people who have actually given something to the UK, are still living on the streets with nothing but public donations.

[Peter Pedant]

erm I think he is just saying it

The Sudan is NOT the land of the free and there has just been a catastrophic civil war there - and he will be well used to system where he is NOT free do go as he likes or go as he likes

[Baldric]

WR, we are not part of the Schengen area, we still have borders,
also

///Sudanese migrant Abdul Rahman Haroun was charged with 'obstructing engines or carriages on a railway' under Section 36 of the Malicious Damage Act 1861.///

From the Link

[Jackdaw33]

Trespassing on the railway is a criminal offence.

[Peter Pedant]

// While some Ex UK Servicemen, ..... are still living on the streets with nothing but public donations. //

this is true/undemaible Baldric but you have omitted - naughty boy - the rest of it which is that there is a measurable level of mental problems and they are on the streets not because they are indigent ex servicemen

not only that - since I am in a combative mood - their mental problems date from the time of their enlistment - which is sort of whilst they were with you and about which you did absolutely nothing at the time

[ Deepcut inquests reopened ]

[whiskeryron]

Thanks divebuddy 'OBSTRUCTING A RAILWAY': THE 1861 RAIL LAW THE MIGRANT BROKE
Sudanese migrant Abdul Rahman Haroun was charged with 'obstructing engines or carriages on a railway' under Section 36 of the Malicious Damage Act 1861.
The precise wording of the offence is: 'Whosoever, by any unlawful act, or by any wilful omission or neglect, shall obstruct or cause to be obstructed any engine or carriage using any railway, or shall aid or assist therein, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the discretion of the court, to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years.'


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[agchristie]

> applying for the right to stay in Britain and being granted asylum

I bet he was 'juba-lant' ;)

[Baldric]

That's ^^^ the link from the OP Ron, what point are you trying to make?

[whiskeryron]

//
Baldric

That's ^^^ the link from the OP Ron, what point are you trying to make?//

This is all getting rather tiresome. I was pointing out that I have read the published article & was trying to point out that NO foreigner ( or indeed anyone else) would be aware of a law which states it is an offence to walk alongside a railway track.

[Baldric]

Yeh, thanks Ron!

[Peter Pedant]

// I was pointing out that I have read the published article & No-one would be aware of a law which states it is an offence to walk alongside a railway track.//

jesus - axactly the opposite of what I thought he said -
ignorance of the law is no defence Whiskey - even in the Sudan ( which of course you knew was once a glorious British colony well OK anglo egyptian condominium. AB is not noted for absolute accuracy or indeed accuracy of any sort )

but anyway that reminds me
My poor dear late father was once picked up by the Gestapo for walking along an autobahn .... yeah war time, returned to POW camp in double quick time. and HE didnt know that rule
somethings never change