Jacob Rees-Mogg has criticised “wet” judges for allowing two foreign criminals to remain in the UK, in his latest comments on GB News.
The former cabinet minister took aim at recent court decisions involving a Jamaican drug dealer and an Albanian failed asylum seeker.
“Another day goes by, which means more examples of our failing deportation system emerges,” Jacob told GB News viewers.
He expressed particular concern about cases where criminals avoided deportation through appeals based on the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
Jacob Rees-Mogg hit out at ‘wet’ judges
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The cases highlighted by Jacob involved appeals won on grounds of family life and children’s welfare.
One case involved a Jamaican drug dealer, known as “GH”, who successfully fought deportation despite being jailed five times in Britain.
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The man was sentenced to 40 months in prison in March 2021 for supplying crack cocaine and heroin.
Judge Sarah Pinder dismissed the government’s appeal against an earlier ruling that allowed him to stay in the UK.
The court heard that one of his children was “experiencing issues with her gender identity” and could only discuss this with her father.
The judge also ruled that his mixed-race children would face “unmet emotional needs” if their father was deported, as he represented “half of their cultural identity”.
Jacob argued that the British public are losing faith in the country’s deportation system.
“These two cases make that worse; the excuses simply don’t seem good enough,” he told GB News.
He described the situation as “heads you win, tails the British public lose”.
“Everything seems to conspire to make sure people stay in this country. And that’s, I think, why people think it’s fundamentally unfair,” he added.
Recent Ministry of Justice figures show that across four years, 10,000 freed foreign criminals went on to commit 40,000 offences, including murder, knife possession and drug dealing.
