New Labour - Allowing migrant sex offenders to stay(they have human rights)

A serial sex offender who admits attacking 11 women has escaped deportation after a judge said it would breach his human rights.

The Home Office argued that Mohammed Kendeh, 21, had a "high risk of reoffending" and should be sent back to Sierra Leone.

But Sir Henry Hodge, Britain's top immigration judge and the husband of Culture Minister Margaret Hodge, said although the sex attacker had been refused British citizenship and was likely to offend again, he must be allowed to stay here.

Sir Henry said sending him home would breach his rights to a family life under the European Commission of Human Rights, and agreed with an earlier ruling that the prolific offender is "one of us".

Kendeh's sex offences rampage began when he was 15 - two years after he became a heavy cannabis smoker - and he has also committed burglary, arson and drug offences.

In 2005 he was jailed for four years for two sex attacks committed days after he was released early from detention for burglary. Astonishingly he was again released early several months ago.

The Home Office last year tried to deport Kendeh, of Peckham, South London, but an immigration judge ruled the move was unlawful.

There was then an appeal by the Home Office - but Sir Henry has now ended the long process by saying the he can stay here for good.

One of Kendeh's victims, Gabrielle Browne, who was dragged into the bushes and sexually assaulted while jogging in a London park, has waived her right to anonymity to attack the judgment.

Mrs Browne, 42, a mother of two, said: "I feel devastated and let down. How is it that somebody who has offended so seriously against defenceless women is allowed to remain in this country?
"It is more than possible he will rape or kill a future victim. It is a farce."

The case comes two months after the decision by Sir Henry to allow killer Learco Chindamo, who murdered headmaster Philip Lawrence, to remain in Britain when he is freed from jail.

The senior judge, who is president of the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal and a former chairman of the National Council for Civil Liberties (now known as Liberty), has a long record of supporting human rights causes.

His latest ruling shows the near impossibility of deporting many dangerous foreign criminals thanks to human rights laws.

Court papers emphasised that Kendeh, first jailed aged 15, has a long history of offending "and in particular of serious sexual assault" and "has been assessed as showing a high risk of reoffending".

The Home Office said his deportation to West Africa was "necessary for the prevention of disorder and crime and for the protection of health and morals".

But Sir Henry disagreed, accepting that the prolific sex offender had come to Britain aged six, and that his only family in Sierra Leone is a grandparent.
**So he is refused citizenship, a proven criminal and no doubt on wall to wall benefits as well and despite offering nothing to this nation he is allowed to stay. I am sure that his next victim will be so pleased with the decision by Sir Henry Hodge.

Gordon Brown, Labour Party Conference 2007 :But let me be clear any newcomer to Britain who is caught selling drugs or using guns will be thrown out. No-one who sells drugs to our children or uses guns has the right to stay in our country.

But sexual predators are ok then Gordon?
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