Let him go home

[anotheoldgit]

http://tinyurl.com/33v7xh2

When they want to go home we won't let them, why don't they just find a boat he can stowaway on?

Or is this just another ploy to abstract large amounts of money from our 'easy touch' nation?

/// He was jailed for nine months by a North Somerset magistrate who ordered he be deported after serving the sentence. On his release, he was sent to a detention centre for three years, despite constant pleas to go home.///

/// In October 2008 he was offered a flat in Newcastle amid fears that he could seriously injure or kill himself hiding on vessels.///

[Ankou]

i imagine if the blinking captains of the boats hadn't kept bringing him back, he would have been long gone.

[rov1200]

You would think that Morocco has full details of this immigrant. Don't they keep any records of its civilians? Then all they have to do is for our government to contact the Morocco government and say they have one of their citizens here. Please take him back!

[New Judge]

I was surprised to read that he was recommended for deportation by a magistrate.

The higher courts have determined that a recommendation for deportation should only be made where the defendant presents an imminent threat to public safety and presents a serious threat to society. It is difficult to envisage Magistrates dealing with offences of such seriousness to meet this test. Indeed the Court of Appeal held that it would be rare to properly recommend deportation where the defendant did not receive a custodial sentence of 12 months or more for a single offence. Magistrates’ maximum sentencing powers are six months custody or, exceptionally, twelve months when sentencing for two or more “Either Way” offences.

This in effect rules out Magistrates making a recommendation for deportation.