Killers, rapists and paedophiles are travelling across the channel, unchecked, as Labour fails to control the border.
Killers and rapists are flooding across the channel. (Image: Getty)
Foreign fugitives wanted for rape, murder and gang violence are pouring into Britain unchecked on small boats, court files reveal. Secret extradition lists and National Crime Agency data show hundreds of foreign criminals have slipped into the country illegally and then claimed asylum and taxpayer-funded legal aid to dodge deportation.
Illegal immigrants from the Middle East and Africa, many of whom have already been refused asylum in Germany, are fuelling a surge in extradition pleas. Germany alone has lodged more than 5,000 requests to the UK in the past two years. Across Europe, alarm is growing as authorities desperately try to track down these violent thugs. Belgium, France, Austria, Romania, Sweden and Cyprus have issued extradition requests, yet only a fraction end in arrests, leaving dangerous fugitives free to roam Britain
In one horrific case, Sudanese national Deng Majek murdered asylum-hotel worker Rhiannon Whyte, stabbing her 23 times with a screwdriver. He was housed at the taxpayers’ expense in a migrant hotel after illegally entering the UK, after Germany rejected his claim for asylum.
Another illegal immigrant, Afghan national Milad Rahimi, was arrested in the UK at a migration centre in Kent after it emerged he was wanted in Germany for the murder of a 17-year-old boy. He was subsequently extradited to the continent and remains in custody.
Bashir Ahmad Bakari, who gave a fake name when he illegally entered the country, was likewise wanted in Germany after a fatal stabbing in Hamburg last year. He was extradited in March for three convictions.
German authorities also tracked another violent suspect, Duvat Elitas, to the United Kingdom. Also wanted for a stabbing by German authorities, he was extradited under guard.
Numerous violent criminals wanted by the authorities have been detained at migrant hotels this year, with many suspects known to the authorities in Germany. One, convicted paedophile Izalden Alshaik Suleman, was arrested while staying in taxpayer-funded asylum accommodation in Manchester.
Another foreign national, Afghan Abdul Wali Ahmadzai, fought extradition after he entered the UK unlawfully. He was wanted in France over an alleged offence involving a 14-year-old girl, and he went on to sexually assault someone in a park in Swansea last year.
Only this month did a judge order his deportation.
In one shocking case, a Lebanese national with 15 serious convictions in Germany was granted asylum, a home and benefits after entering the UK under a false name. Mohammed Roumieh was extradited in August this year.
The staggering scale of suspected rapists, murderers and paedophiles lays bare a border system in meltdown, despite Labour’s pledges to “smash the gangs”. Sir Keir Starmer’s much-vaunted ‘one in, one out’ scheme has returned just 42 migrants to France since August, one for every 1,400 arrivals, before one promptly hopped on a boat and crossed back again
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said in a statement last week that the number of crossings was “shameful” and that “the British people deserve better.”
Labour has pledged to take “further and faster” action to stop the boats, but has not said how it intends to do so.
Extradition papers, uncovered in an investigation by Essex News and Investigations, revealed how suspects from Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Eritrea, tied to murders, attempted murders, manslaughters, rapes, grievous bodily harm (GBH), people smuggling and drug trafficking, have been found in UK asylum hotels.
Migration Watch UK, a pressure group calling for restrictions to migration to the country, warned that this could be the “tip of a much bigger iceberg”. Its chairman, Alp Mehmet, told Essex News and Investigations that “Those who come here illegally should be interviewed by experienced officials and held until a reliable decision can be made. Giving everyone the benefit of the doubt and hoping for the best is not the way to do it. The onus should always be on the migrant to make his case not for officials to disprove it.”
The Home Office said: “Mandatory security checks are an essential part of our border controls on all small-boat arrivals. Where criminals or threats are identified, we seek to remove them as soon as possible.”
