Where's my "ooman rights"?

[R1Geezer]

Why is it that only criminal lowlives like Chindamo have ooman rights?

[MickyMacgraw]

This bit "Learco Chindamo, the convicted murderer of the head teacher Philip Lawrence, would escape deportation to his native Italy because this would breach his right to family life in this country."
Why could he have been deported, and then why wasn't he?

[R1Geezer]

he could have been deported because he is italian he wasn't because it would have infringed his Yuman rights.

[MickyMacgraw]

So he was illegally here? If so why aren't all deported criminals playing the human race card? Something doesn't add up here, there must be more to this story.

[anotheoldgit]

That looks terrific.

[anotheoldgit]

MickyMacgraw

/// So he was illegally here? If so why aren't all deported criminals playing the human race card? ///

I think you mean 'Human Rights Card' but I think most of them do, they use all kinds of ploys, 'if you send me back I will be killed / tortured / imprisoned etc etc'

And thanks to the 'European Convention on Human Rights' and some very expensive legal aid, they generally get away with it.

[MickyMacgraw]

Anotheoldgit, yes I understand that this is used in many countries with oppressive regimes, warzones and strict religions but what was the basis for chindamos stay as I wasn't aware that Italy fell under the same category as those mentioned above.

[Zeuhl]

<<he could have been deported because he is italian >>

Surely Italians have right of residence here and anywhere else in the union , same as we all do.
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[sherminator]

I fink i understand the wit on this sight now. you just make up sentances as u go along. wen other peeple do it its offensive but wen sum peeple do it, it make sum kinda politikal statement!

[MickyMacgraw]

Eh?

[ummmm]

I thought he'd moved here when he was very young and that's why they decided not to deport him.

[anotheoldgit]

Don't Italy still throw people to the lions in the Colosseum now?

[New Judge]

The case was complicated by the fact that Chindamo is an EU citizen.
In essence EU rules state it says that an EU member state cannot deport an EU citizen unless they pose a threat to the "fundamental interests of society".
In other words, if a convicted criminal can show that he or she is normally resident in the country which is trying to deport him, the courts need to take that into account, along with the risk he or she poses, before sanctioning his/her removal. The Home Office was unable to persuade an immigration tribunal that Chindamo posed such a threat.
However, Article 8 of the ECHR would have stopped the deportation too, because it says that every citizen has the right of respect for private and family life. Chindamo was born in Italy, but his family have been in this country for many years.
The tribunal made clear that, in their view, sending him to Italy just because that was the country of his birth would have infringed his rights for a life with his family.
So although it was not the Human Rights Act which sealed the fate of the Home Office's attempt to deport him - but it could have been invoked were it not for the other law.

[Zeuhl]

Thanks for that NJ
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