The Loony Left: New Labour let criminals out to fly.

A passenger in a light aircraft which crash-landed in a garden in Kent was a prisoner on day release from jail.

The prisoner, believed to be serving a sentence locally for importing drugs, suffered minor injuries when the Cessna 172 crashed in Lyminge on Saturday.

The pilot, Sid Clark, said he assumed the prisoner was out "legitimately".

A statement from the Ministry of Justice said the prisoner had been returned to "closed conditions" while an investigation was being carried out.

The aircraft had set off from Rochester Airport. Both men were taken to the William Harvey Hospital in Ashford for treatment after the crash.

The prisoner, who was within the last two years of completing an eight-year sentence, was then taken to Maidstone prison.

Mr Clark, from Maidstone, who also received minor injuries in the crash, told BBC Radio Kent the flight was logged with air traffic control at Rochester as a one-hour trip.

Eileen Watling, the owner of the house where the plane landed, said: "We've had a very lucky escape."

She said if the aircraft had not hit the tree, it would have landed on top of her home.

The two injured men walked through the trees and into her conservatory after the crash landing, she added.

"One had cut his head and was bleeding profusely, and he'd got a bruised eye.

"The other one was just shocked, but he was covered in aviation fuel."

She said the pair were released from hospital that evening, "so they were lucky".

The Air Accidents Investigation Branch has been informed - it is not yet known why the aircraft came down.

Kent Police have searched the crash scene but found nothing suspicious.

Now I hate to be suspicious here but why would a drug dealer be needing flying lessons unless its to avoid HM Customs officials when he flies in his next consignment of the finest Columbian marching powder.

So let me just check that I got the basic facts right here. We have a New Labour government that keeps up the old chant of "Tough on crime and tough on the causes of crime", who let a convicted drugs dealers walking out of prison to take to the skies.

Whilst kebab hunter Home Sec. Jacqui Smith and the Ministry of Justice make claims that criminals have never had it so tough and the streets are safer than ever.

Truly the lunatics run the asylum...
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