Harmondsworth barbarians in court.

I covered the case of the rioting savages who trashed the Harmondsworth detention centre before: here and here.

Well the judge in the case Mr Christopher Elwen, stated "that Britain had lost control of its borders "for the first time since 1066".

Christopher Elwen gave the dramatic assessment after four foreign nationals were cleared of masterminding the "rampage" at Harmondsworth removal centre.

Two of the men were jailed for the millions of pounds worth of damage caused during the huge disturbance, which left large parts of the 555-bed West London centre wrecked.

Southwark Crown Court in London heard that the mayhem - sparked by complaints about human rights and detainees not having Sky TV - engulfed all four wings.

**Would that the poor darlings had to pay for Sky/cable like the rest of us.

During the riot the poor oppressed illegals:

• Armed themselves with makeshift weapons
• Damaged walls
• Destroyed security cameras
• Smashed windows
• Shattered furniture
• Started fires
• Several of those on duty were forced to retreat as an enraged 50-strong mob battered down an internal security door.
• A woman officer had a towel rail hurled at her head "like a spear", which missed by an inch.

Judge Elwen, bemoaning the existence of such centres, said: "In the last few years this country, perhaps for the first time since 1066, lost control of its borders and one of the unfortunate consequences of this has been the existence of detention centres such was Harmondsworth."

Shortly after the riot, the usual suspects came out to blame everyone except the rioters of course:

Anne Owers, the Chief Inspector of Prisons. She appeared on tv before the riot to condemn the prison and the company running it.

Peter Tatchell stated that it was our version of Guantanamo Bay.

And Joanne Bean stated that conditions were not brilliant, she is the girlfriend of illegal savage Diyako Rasul and he had been awaiting deportation for seven months.

Anyway back to the barbarians in the dock:

In the dock were Ahmed Mohammed Ali, a 20-year-old failed Palestinian asylum seeker; Russian Andrey Pylaev, 22, another failed asylum seeker; Egyptian Sherif El-Gazzaz, 21, ordered out of the country following a three-anda-half year jail sentence for a separate violent disorder incident; and Russian national Alexsey Goryachiev, 26.

They were all cleared of conspiracy to commit violent disorder between October 31 and November 30, 2006.

Pylaev was found not guilty of two counts of damaging property, while Goryachiev was cleared of one.

But Goryachiev was jailed for two months after admitting a separate charge of criminally damaging a CCTV camera, while El-Gazzaz, who pleaded guilty to damaging another camera and a wall panel, received a similar sentence.

Tags: Harmondsworth Immigration Detention Centre, Immigration, New Labour, Anne Owers, Peter Tatchell, Joanne Bean, Diyako Rasul,

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