Murder, battery and drug dealing: The crimes committed in Britain by criminals who Starmer helped dodge deportation

Foreign criminals who dodged deportation successful the aftermath of Sir Keir Starmer signing a missive calling for flights to beryllium halted went connected to perpetrate murder, batter a 999 idiosyncratic and proviso hard drugs connected Britain's streets.

The unsafe thugs won last-minute reprieves from Home Office flights sending them backmost to Jamaica successful 2020.

In February that year, Sir Keir joined dozens of Labour MPs to run against deporting astir 50 overseas criminals to Jamaica.

Their letter, to the past PM Boris Johnson, said it was 'crucial that each further deportations are cancelled', pending a reappraisal pursuing the Windrush scandal.

The MPs compared the deportations of criminals to the Windrush episode, adjacent though that progressive migrants who suffered an injustice and who had committed nary crimes.

It was 2 days earlier a planned deportation flight, and 2 months earlier Sir Keir became the Labour leader. Some 23 of the 50 criminals, including rapists and killers, managed to get disconnected the February 2020 formation aft last-minute tribunal appeals. Their lawyers toasted their occurrence aft halting their removal, declaring: 'What a result.'

Labour said astatine the clip that Sir Keir had thing to bash with processes that allowed these men to stay successful the UK.

In the aftermath of the missive signed by Sir Keir, different Home Office deportation formation to Jamaica – successful December 2020 – saw different surge of last-minute appeals which led to superior criminals avoiding removal.

Last nighttime the Home Office said: 'Foreign nationals who perpetrate transgression should beryllium successful nary uncertainty that we volition bash everything to marque definite they are not escaped to roam Britain's streets.

'Since the predetermination we've removed 3,594 overseas criminals, up 16 per cent connected the erstwhile 12 months.'

Among the criminals who evaded the deportation flights successful 2020 – aft the missive Sir Keir signed – are those pictured , arsenic good as:

• Barrington Laing: After vocation transgression escaped deportation flight, helium was jailed again for six months for carrying a knife.
• Akiva Heaven: Served 4 years for cause offence. Beat deportation and was jailed again successful 2021 for dealing cocaine and heroin
• Tajay Thompson: Convicted aged 17 of possessing ace and heroin with intent to supply. Evaded 2020 deportation. Beat up young parent and convicted of ABH and attempted robbery successful 2023 
• Damian Morgan: He attacked a 999 idiosyncratic 3 months aft being hauled disconnected the formation to Jamaica. He was jailed 15 months.
• Theodore Carlyle: After avoiding deportation, helium was jailed for 5 years, 7 months for possession with intent to proviso a Class A drug.
• Courtney Javal Williams: He went was jailed successful 2021 for 4 years for dealing heroin and ace cocaine.