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

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

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.

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.

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!

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

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

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.

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?

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

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

He’ll come back and receive another £500 to leave,
and the Winter fuel allowance is means tested.

He'll use the £500 to fund a return trip to Calais and the whole pantomime will start all over again.

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.

“It is one thing financing a failed asylum seeker rehoming”
You mean an illegal migrant, and why is it acceptable? Easybee

No, I differentiate between an asylum seeker in our country (however they arrived) and a convicted criminal.

This is unbelievable isn’t it?
This individual, the one who sexually assaulted a child in Essex had threatened to disrupt his deportation, so he was paid £500 not to make a fuss on the flight.

Arrangements should have been put in place to make damn sure he got on the plane and behaved.

What is the matter with us?

The BBC website said he was threatening to disrupt his deportation.It is the word 'threatening' that gives rise to alarm.

This is a prisoner convicted of a sexual assault, who is able to dictate the terms, and cost, of his deportation.

Thank you Primrose.
Does that now make butterjam's version more accurate?

Maremia

Where did you hear your version, Primrose?

The earliest reports just said he was threatening “to disrupt his deportation”. It was much later in the day when it was explained in more detail.

It’s bonkers because he had actually pleaded to be sent back to Ethiopia so why give him any money at all? He got what he wanted!

Where did you hear your version, Primrose?

butterandjam

" He said he would kick off on the flight to Ethiopia ".

Not quite.

The reported risk was that he could disrupt the deportation order by making a legal challenge involving further expense to the taxpayer ; court time, judge, lawyers, all while he spent more time in prison at £1000 a week. Spinning it out as long as he could.

That would have cost us far more than £500,

Not what I heard.

" He said he would kick off on the flight to Ethiopia ".

Not quite.

The reported risk was that he could disrupt the deportation order by making a legal challenge involving further expense to the taxpayer ; court time, judge, lawyers, all while he spent more time in prison at £1000 a week. Spinning it out as long as he could.

That would have cost us far more than £500,

Another asylum seeker jailed for life today after stabbing to death a devoted family man in a bank in Derby.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyld1p0lw1o

If, as Labour have claimed, 35,000 have been deported in the last year, how many were 'forcibly' returned and how much have we given them to 'rehome'?

How may have made their way back again?

Paid removals are normal under the Facilitated Returns Scheme, with foreign nationals who agree to leave the UK being given £1,500.

"Forcible" returns do not usually involve payments, but removal teams can decide to make a discretionary payment to ensure things go smoothly.
BBC website

I despair of this country.
It is one thing financing a failed asylum seeker rehoming
You mean an illegal migrant, and why is it acceptable?

growstuff

LovesBach

So - a hissy fit results in some pocket money. How soon before he is back again? It certainly pays

Who had a hissy fit?

He did! He said he would kick off on the flight to Ethiopia despite having 5 security men guarding him.

What a stupid, stupid thing to do giving him £500. In future anybody being deported (and Labour say there will be plenty of them) will be threatening to do the same if they don’t get a cash payment. You quite honestly could not make this up!