Killers and rapists flood into UK as migrant chaos spirals. | Politics | News
Court files reveal that foreign fugitives wanted for rape, murder and gang violence are flowing uncontrollably into the UK on small boats. Secret extradition lists and National Crime Agency data show hundreds of foreign criminals entered the country illegally and then sought asylum and taxpayer-funded legal aid to avoid deportation.
Illegal immigrants from the Middle East and Africa, many of whom have been rejected for asylum in Germany, are causing an increase in extradition requests. Germany alone has made more than 5,000 requests to the UK in the last two years. Alarm is rising across Europe as authorities desperately try to track down these violent thugs. Belgium, France, Austria, Romania, Sweden and Cyprus have requested extradition, but only a minority of arrests have ended and dangerous fugitives remain free to roam Britain.
In a horrific incident, Sudanese national Deng Majek killed asylum hotel worker Rhiannon Whyte by stabbing her 23 times with a screwdriver. He was held in an immigration hotel at taxpayers’ expense after entering the UK illegally after Germany rejected his asylum claim.
Another illegal immigrant, Afghan national Milad Rahimi, was arrested at an immigration center in Kent, England, after it was revealed that he was wanted in Germany for the murder of a 17-year-old child. He was later extradited to the continent and remains in custody.
Bashir Ahmed Bakari, who gave a false name when entering the country illegally, was also wanted in Germany after the fatal stabbing incident in Hamburg last year. He was extradited in March on three convictions.
German authorities also tracked another violence suspect, Duvat Elitas, to the United Kingdom. Additionally, the man wanted by German authorities on stabbing charges was extradited under surveillance.
Scores of violent criminals wanted by authorities were detained in immigration hotels this year, and many suspects were known to authorities in Germany. One of them, convicted pedophile Izalden Alshaik Suleman, was arrested while staying at a taxpayer-funded asylum in Manchester.
Another foreign national, Afghan Abdul Wali Ahmadzai, fought extradition after entering the UK illegally. He was wanted in France for an alleged crime involving a 14-year-old girl and had sexually assaulted someone in a park in Swansea last year.
But this month a judge ordered his deportation.
In one shocking case, a Lebanese national with 15 serious convictions in Germany was given asylum, housing and benefits after entering the UK under a false name. Mohammed Roumieh was extradited in August this year.
Despite Labour’s promise to “crush gangs”, the number of suspected rapists, murderers and pedophiles makes clear that the border system is collapsing. Sir Keir Starmer’s much-vaunted ‘one in, one out’ plan has sent just 42 migrants back to France since August; This meant one for every 1,400 arrivals; Then one of them immediately jumped into a boat and returned again.
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said last week that the number of crossings was “disgraceful” and that “British people deserve better”.
Labor has vowed to take “further and faster” action to stop the boats but has not said how it plans to do so.
Extradition documents revealed by an investigation by Essex News and Investigations have revealed how suspects from Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Eritrea, linked to murder, attempted murder, manslaughter, rape, grievous bodily harm (GBH), people smuggling and drug trafficking, were found in asylum hotels in the UK.
Pressure group Migration Watch UK, which has called for immigration into the country to be restricted, warned this could be “the tip of a much larger iceberg”. Alp Mehmet, the association’s president, told Essex News and Investigations: “Those who come here illegally should be interrogated by experienced authorities and kept waiting until a credible decision is made. Giving everyone the benefit of the doubt and hoping for the best is not the way to do this. The onus should always be on the immigrant to present his or her case, not for the authorities to refute it.”
The Home Office said: “Compulsory security checks are an important part of our border controls at all small craft entries. Where criminals or threats are detected we seek to eliminate them as quickly as possible.”
