Why Was He Even Here?

[youngmafbog]

http://news.sky.com/story/1337855/missing-alice-gross-suspect-a-murder-convict

Why was this man allowed into our country/ Does the EU mean we have to accept anyone in and to hell with the consequences?

[knowabit]

I was just thinking the same! A convicted murderer, and he has been previously arrested in London for an indecent assault on a young girl!!
Why wasn't he shipped back to wherever he came from!

[anotheoldgit]

This is not an isolated case, we have hundreds like him in our country, time we 'cocked a snoot' at the EU and refused entry to anyone with a previous criminal record, along with deporting all those who have committed serious crimes whilst here.

[knowabit]

I'd like to think that would be a standard rule anyway, but obviously it isn't!

[douglas9401]

His initial immigration point may have been temporarily unmanned due to a doughnut replenishment operation.

[kvalidir]

We also export our home grown murderers etc though in turn. Go to Spain if you want to see if that's untrue, it's not called the Costa Crime for nothing.
Whilst I'm not thrilled he's here, if we have free movement within Europe then it's inevitable that people with serious criminal records will move about, it's in their interest to do so be they from another state coming here or from here going to a foreign state.

[saintpeter48]

Agree with kvalidir on this one!

All the more reason why we should get out of the EU and control who comes here and who leaves!

[ChillDoubt]

Sadly, we have a propensity for importing criminality at an alarming rate.

As for the Costa del Crime post by kvalidir I don't see how that's relevant. Those there have invariably committed crimes in UK and fled to Spain. Whilst there they tend not to offend, thus the Spanish Police won't be overly pro-active in seeking them.
We on the other hand allow all and sundry to come here, many with criminal records who subsequently and very quickly continue unabated in the same vein once here.

[anotheoldgit]

ChillDoubt

/// We on the other hand allow all and sundry to come here, many with criminal records who subsequently and very quickly continue unabated in the same vein once here. ///

And even more so, since our police and our courts, are much more lenient than their own.

[VHG]

>>>our courts are much more lenient than their own

Well this guy got only 7 years for murder in Latvia and that sounds pretty lenient to me (though we don't know all the details, but it WAS murder).

[youngmafbog]

Costa crime? I thought they had a bit of a clan up on that one, and anyway the Spanish courted them after the Franco regime to bring cash into the country.

Apart from the hand wringing liberals, I dont think anyone in the UK courted this sort of scum.

[fruitsalad]

Makes me sick how soft this country has become, wonder if America and Australia would let the riff raff in, as easily as they do here