Epping sex offender deported to Ethiopia and been paid £500!

No, no joke, it’s a bit like Monopoly, pass go and get £500

I’d have happily given him £500 to get rid of him.
Scum.

Primrose53, you beat me to it - I was going to start a post on this to see which of the Labour Party supporters on here would step up to defend it! The anction is incomprehensible and makes us a laughing stock!! When are we ever going to learn ….? I wonder what the family of the poor victim thinks of it?

eazybee

You said a failed asylum seeker, which means he is an illegal migrant, which is why he is being rehomed.
It is not right for him to be funded to return home when he should not have travelled here in the first place.

Okay…

What I mean by a failed asylum seeker is someone who doesn’t qualify for asylum under our regulations. What I mean by a convicted criminal is someone who has been found guilty of eg a sex crime, abuse, assault, murder etc

I have no problem with folks who’ve overstayed their visa, licence etc deliberately or inadvertently, being encouraged financially to return from whence they came.

Convicted criminals, should not be rewarded with money when being deported IMO.

It's a discretionary grant.
Not "be good on the flight" money.
And no "hissy fits" involved.

Although it leaves a bad taste in the mouth 500 quid is money well spent to get him out of the country.

Dorisdodar

Although it leaves a bad taste in the mouth 500 quid is money well spent to get him out of the country.

But it sets a precedent for other deportees to do the same. Never should have happened. They will all be at it now. I read that £500 here is equivalent to approx £38,000 in Ethiopia so a great little earner.

If there was £500 going spare I would rather it was given to his 14 year old victim. Poor girl!

It’s the first time I’ve posted on News and Politics, but today was a new low for me - hearing this news, plus the stabbing in Uxbridge…

And today’s BBC news that a hospice in Derbyshire is having to close most of it’s beds and make redundancies - (despite the clinical need) - due only to lack of funding.

We can’t fund our own hospices - but we can give £500 to this man - and no doubt others. I’m really despairing about this today.

I have no problem with folks who’ve overstayed their visa, licence etc deliberately or inadvertently, being encouraged financially to return from whence they came

Well, I do.

That's a deposit for a seat on a rubber boat. This country is a complete shambles.

Primrose53

Dorisdodar

Although it leaves a bad taste in the mouth 500 quid is money well spent to get him out of the country.

But it sets a precedent for other deportees to do the same. Never should have happened. They will all be at it now. I read that £500 here is equivalent to approx £38,000 in Ethiopia so a great little earner.

If there was £500 going spare I would rather it was given to his 14 year old victim. Poor girl!

You need to improve your sources.
www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_countries_result.jsp?country1=Ethiopia&country2=United+Kingdom

He really had no case to bring for appealing deportation but some lawyer may have tried their best to do so.

All in all £500 was cheap compared to what he could have cost the British taxpayer with cancelled flights, keeping him while he tried to delay possible deportation and a possible asylum procedure.

Let's hope we never see him here again.

We can’t fund our own hospices

Now, that is truly shocking that we cannot look after our dying people, and very sick and dying children without relying on charity.
But they are two separate issues.

He threatened to bring a legal challenge to delay his deportation, which would have extended his stay and cost considerably more. Plus all the bad publicity.

Now who would have funded his lawyer?

There is a scheme where the government willingly pay to those eligible to return if they want to.

The voluntary returns service can provide up to £3,000 in financial support to help you after you leave the UK. If you are eligible, you will get a single payment on a card before you leave the UK. You can only use the card in your home country

So this isn't setting a precedent at all.
Money well spent. It would cost a lot more keeping him here.

He received £500 the day I received a letter saying I will receive £100 winter fuel allowance

REKA

There is a scheme where the government willingly pay to those eligible to return if they want to.

The voluntary returns service can provide up to £3,000 in financial support to help you after you leave the UK. If you are eligible, you will get a single payment on a card before you leave the UK. You can only use the card in your home country

So this isn't setting a precedent at all.
Money well spent. It would cost a lot more keeping him here.

I agree. £500 was cheap to get rid of him. He's gone.

The precedent was already set by Tories when they gave three people money to return to their original country. And it was much more than £500. I have read the reason why this awful man was given money. I can understand why it was better than a protracted court case and the costs of that which would have run into thousands. There was also the fear of him kicking off on the plane which appears to have been a real fear.

Casdon thanks.
Had no idea about the cost of living in Ethiopia

Casdon

Primrose53

Dorisdodar

Although it leaves a bad taste in the mouth 500 quid is money well spent to get him out of the country.

But it sets a precedent for other deportees to do the same. Never should have happened. They will all be at it now. I read that £500 here is equivalent to approx £38,000 in Ethiopia so a great little earner.

If there was £500 going spare I would rather it was given to his 14 year old victim. Poor girl!

You need to improve your sources.
www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_countries_result.jsp?country1=Ethiopia&country2=United+Kingdom

So we are expected to use your source only? 🤔

I searched reliable sources like the Spectator this morning and they say £500 is equivalent to average 3 months salary in Ethiopia. Last night ITV said it was equivalent to a year’s salary in Ethiopia.

The average monthly salary in Ethiopia is equivalent to £150 in UK money Primrose53. There are plenty of online sources if you care to check. I doubt you will.

Well the Spectator is close then. That said £500 and 3 x £150 is £450.

Matters not really as he will be back on the next dinghy you can bet your life.

Grandmabatty he was apparently not threatening to "kick off" on the plane - if you read around this it was a financial decision based on the costs of a challenged/ disrupted deportation.
To be fair if you have 5 security escorts it's probably not easy to "kick off".

The payment was approved by officials, not ministers, on Tuesday as an operational decision as they prepared to remove Kebatu, who had expressed a wish to return to Ethiopia when he was convicted.

Downing Street said he had attempted to apply for a “facilitated return scheme”, which under successive governments has offered foreign nationals resettlement grants of up to £1,500, but the attempt was denied.

“However, given Kebatu threatened to disrupt the flight, an operational decision was taken to facilitate his return,” the prime minister’s official spokesperson said.

The decision was taken by officials as the alternative was a slower and more expensive process, which would have included detention, a new flight and potentially fighting subsequent legal claims. The costs of cancelling the flight would have run into several thousands of pounds.
The Guardian

I didn't say he was threatening to kick off, just that there was the fear he might. And I did say it was a decision made on costs.

Kebatu threatened to disrupt the flight were the words quoted on the BBC website, which certainly suggests disruptive behaviour actually on the aeroplane, not an application for a delayed hearing.
Semantics.