Thursday, April 17, 2014

Convenient

How I am coming to loathe the Human Rights Act, it seems to contain a get out clause for any criminal looking to be deported and a license to make money for the legal establishment. Two cases caught my attention this morning, Haroon Aswat can't be deported to the USA on charges of setting up a terrorist training camp because he has paranoid schizophrenia and the court want to ensure he will be sent to a psychiatric facility, not a prison, paranoid schizophrenic being the default position for most jihadi's these days. And then there was this...
Mail.
An illegal immigrant who stabbed a 15-year-old schoolboy to death less than a year after arriving in Britain cannot be deported because he claims to be gay, judges ruled yesterday.
The 29-year-old Jamaican was jailed for life aged 16 when he and another schoolboy knifed Abdul Maye to death over a £10 debt outside his school in east London.
A judge at the Old Bailey ordered that he be kicked out of Britain once he had served a minimum of eight years.
Judge Paul Focke told the thug, who cannot not be named for legal reasons: ‘You are a Jamaican national and within months of coming to this country you committed murder.
‘I am of the view that your continued presence in this country will be detrimental to its citizens.’
But yesterday, the Court of Appeal ruled that he could not be sent back to Jamaica because he could face degrading treatment for being homosexual that would breach his human rights.
In an extraordinary judgement which has provoked outrage, Lord Justice Kay said he believed his mother’s evidence that he was gay – even though the Home Office said he ‘had made no mention of it’ until his first appeal against deportation failed.
 Well wasn't that bloody convenient, he hid the fact that he was gay until he was about to be deported and was only believed because his mum said so
What a joke the Human Rights Act is, it's supposed to protect our rights and yet all it seems to do is allow murderers, rapists and thieves to remain amongst us often illegally and most definitely unwelcome by the population as a whole.
Frankly I don't care what the Jamaicans do to him if he's returned, I have a sneaking suspicion that if he managed to hide the fact that he's gay this long, he would manage OK in Jamaica. If not, who cares? (well his mum obviously)
The HRA ought to be renamed the Criminal Rights Charter as all it seems to do is allow those who we don't want to remain amongst us posing a threat to the individuals of this country and the vast mass of law abiding people here.
The only way to rid ourselves of it would be to leave the EU, what's not to like?

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Mr. Morden said...

I get the feeling that our justice system is based on the German one. Why ? Because the German's place a superior right(s) of the individual over the rights of society.

In short : I blame, Immanuel Kant.

This philosophy, which has found its way into law, is what is at the root of all this, I believe.

Kath Lissenden said...

Of course if we managed to ditch the human rights act and then reintroduced the death penalty it would solve all the problems in one fell swoop.
I agree with everything you say QM the human rights act makes my blood boil.
As I have said on many an occasion the criminal knows how to twist it to his advantage and yet the law abiding citizens can't ever get it to work in their favour.
Funny that, proof(not that any were needed) that there is no such thing as justice.
My question to all these judges is what about the human rights of the rest of us to live safely and without fear of being murdered in our beds, do we not have that right with all this pond life in our country and no one wanting to send them back it would seem not.

English Pensioner said...

Another today. A Jamaican can't be extradited to Jamaica because he says that he's gay.

Anonymous said...

I wonder sometimes what must one do to GET deported from the UK?

James Higham said...

Otherwise known as the Condone a Criminal Act.