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Clapham acid attacker - asylum seeker convicted of sex offence but still granted asylum?

(522 Posts)
Kandinsky Fri 02-Feb-24 08:43:28

What the hell is happening to this country?
Send these scum to Rwanda ASAP.

Totally sick of these violent criminals being allowed to stay here.

Iam64 Mon 05-Feb-24 08:11:32

Apologies - I should’ve read the entire thread - if I had I wouldn’t have responded

Iam64 Mon 05-Feb-24 08:10:09

cakmib

www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/online-event/home-office-fit-purpose

www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/nov/15/home-offices-out-of-date-grasp-of-highlighted-by-watchdog

There you go.

Incompetence isn’t corruption
Public bodies have been cut to the bone, training etc much reduced

maddyone Mon 05-Feb-24 00:03:51

Yes Dickens I think a failed applicant would be allowed to appeal, maybe more than once. Like you I’m not an expert and any knowledge I’ve picked up along the way is incidental. Maybe someone else knows more than we do.

Dickens Sun 04-Feb-24 23:46:06

Callistemon21

Best ignored.

🗸 🗸 🗸

Dickens Sun 04-Feb-24 23:43:49

maddyone

I suspect that he wasn’t deported because it takes a long time, often years, after the refusal of application to stay, before a person is actually deported.

Are they also not entitled to launch an appeal if their claim is refused? So one refusal will not automatically result in deportation.. Maybe, also, that depends on the nature of the reason for the refusal.

I know there have been changes to the Nationality and Borders Act, but I don't follow these, so maybe someone knows better than me.

I believe they have problems recruiting anyway - does that mean that sometimes less experienced staff are dealing with these claims?

It's not a job I would relish.

maddyone Sun 04-Feb-24 23:05:14

I suspect that he wasn’t deported because it takes a long time, often years, after the refusal of application to stay, before a person is actually deported.

Callistemon21 Sun 04-Feb-24 22:41:11

Home Office sources said officials were demanding answers over why the suspect was granted asylum by the courts despite being denied the right to stay twice before.

Why was he not deported when first refused the right to stay? 🤔

Callistemon21 Sun 04-Feb-24 22:37:21

Afghanistan was, prior to the taliban take-over in 2021 , not a country that an Afghan would need to flee from.

Yes, I mentioned that upthread, Chapeau.
Interesting hypothesis.

Chapeau Sun 04-Feb-24 22:33:53

I have to say that the thing that puzzles me is why this monster was claiming asylum in the first place. He apparently arrived here in 2016 from Afghanistan so we can assume it would've taken some time to reach the UK. Afghanistan was, prior to the taliban take-over in 2021 , not a country that an Afghan would need to flee from. There was religious tolerance, it was OK to peacefully protest about the government, whilst being gay was obviously not acceptable, there was no persecution of LGBT citizens and any threats to an individual from the taliban (very unlikely) would have been dealt with by the Afghan authorities. I do not think this monster was gay. I have discussed this with a former student of mine who was a senior officer in the Afghan Embassy in London (before 2021) and we came to the conclusion that the main reason to flee Afghanistan at that time would be if the monster was already a criminal there. Of course there could be other reasons that we were unaware of in our discussion (which was obviously speculative) but it would be interesting to know just why he was seeking asylum in the first place. Don't all jump on me but I wonder if he was a sex offender in Afghanistan too???

tickingbird Sun 04-Feb-24 22:28:31

Most strange.

Callistemon21 Sun 04-Feb-24 22:05:49

Best ignored.

Galaxy Sun 04-Feb-24 22:03:59

It certainly escalated weirdly.

Germanshepherdsmum Sun 04-Feb-24 21:54:32

cakmib

Boo hoo.

Pathetic.

Dickens Sun 04-Feb-24 21:50:01

GrannyGravy13

There is a reward of £20,000 on this evil excuse for a man’s head.

Let’s hope that it’s enough for someone to ring the police with information on his whereabouts.

Someone, somewhere, has got to be sheltering him - unless he's hiding out in the woods, because he has to eat, drink and sleep - and his injury obviously needs attention.

Such individuals are caught sooner or later. I'm sure he will be, soon.

cakmib Sun 04-Feb-24 21:45:33

Boo hoo.

Callistemon21 Sun 04-Feb-24 21:44:52

It's libellous.

Dickens Sun 04-Feb-24 21:42:31

Errors, omissions, incompetence, corrupt the system, but you cakmib are suggesting that those working in the HO are corrupt.

Corruption is deliberate acts of misconduct and law-breaking, fraud, etc. Where is your evidence?

cakmib Sun 04-Feb-24 21:33:07

“It’s a terrifying business being a minister in the Home Office,” said a former senior civil servant who worked in the department during the 2000s. “There’s this huge back catalogue of errors and omissions, any one of which could appear on the front pages, and dominate the news.” The Windrush scandal, the biggest crisis to hit the department in years, left Caroline Nokes, the minister in charge when it broke, “always worried about what else would emerge”.

Callistemon21 Sun 04-Feb-24 21:25:59

Aveline

I don't think the Home Office is corrupt just criminally incompetent.

That's a very sweeping statement.

Do you mean the whole of the Home Office, all 35,000 civil servants?

Germanshepherdsmum Sun 04-Feb-24 21:23:33

Where is the evidence of corruption?

Aveline Sun 04-Feb-24 21:23:15

I don't think the Home Office is corrupt just criminally incompetent.

Callistemon21 Sun 04-Feb-24 21:21:57

Germanshepherdsmum

What evidence do you have that the Home Office is totally corrupt? You seem to have a tendency to make statements with no supporting evidence.

It was just another silly post without any foundation, claiming that 35,000 civil servants are all totally corrupt.

cakmib Sun 04-Feb-24 21:19:51

www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/online-event/home-office-fit-purpose

www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/nov/15/home-offices-out-of-date-grasp-of-highlighted-by-watchdog

There you go.

Iam64 Sun 04-Feb-24 20:08:28

caknib

God,its desperate really when thousands of people are reduced to labels 'them.'
You do understand they are living human beings just like the rest of us?

I certainly do understand ‘they are living human beings just like the rest of us’
So are the individuals who work in our Home Office yet you dismiss them as ‘corrupt’. Evidence please

caknib Sun 04-Feb-24 20:02:38

God,its desperate really when thousands of people are reduced to labels 'them.'
You do understand they are living human beings just like the rest of us?