1 in 10 Violent Criminals in British Jails is a Foreigner

Mirror
April 29, 2014

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Black murderer Rohan Chung shot dead Connie Morrison, her sister Lorna and their mother’s partner Noel Patterson, in Harlesden, north-west London.

Nearly one in ten of the 11,000 foreign prisoners ­clogging up our overcrowded jails are from one country.

The Sunday People has obtained official figures showing that 989 lags are from Poland.

The next worst offenders are Ireland, Jamaica and Romania followed by Pakistan, Lithuania and Nigeria.

Further down the list are Somalia, India, Albania and Bangladesh.

Caging the 10,649 foreigners – ­including killers, rapists and terrorists – costs the UK £362million a year.

But there is little hope they will be sent back to their own country to serve their time.

Britain has prison transfer ­agreements to deport convicted ­criminals before they enter our prison system with more than 70 nations.

But many don’t want them back. Even in the EU, just 17 criminals have been sent home since December 2011.

Meanwhile, the service running England and Wales’ jails is having to cut £650million from its £3.5billion budget and reports of prison ­overcrowding are widespread.

The most notorious Poles among the UK’s jail population of 85,265 are Mariusz Krezolek and Magdelena Luczak – serving life for the brutal murder of her four-year-old son Daniel Pelka in Coventry.

Undated Greater Manchester Police handout photo of Shabir Ahmed, the ringleader of a gang of Asian men who groomed young white girls for sex
Arab child-abuser Abuser Shabir Ahmed.

They starved, tortured and killed Daniel in 2012 showing what a judge called “incomprehensible cruelty”.

But Krezolek, 35, and Luczak, 28, – who got a minimum of 30 years each in August – are likely serve time here.

Even though Poland is in the EU, its agreement with us doesn’t come into force until December 2016 due to the poor state of its jails.

Other Polish inmates include ­chemistry teacher Ryszard Jakubczyk, who plotted to flood the UK drugs market with pure amphetamine cooked at a secret lab in Grantham, Lincs.

Jakubczyk, 61 – likened to drug lord Walter White from cult TV series Breaking Bad – was locked up for nine years last month.

Among the 711 Jamaicans in Britain’s jails is triple murderer Rohan “Chunky” Chung, given three life terms at the Old Bailey and ordered to serve at least 40 years in 2006.

Chung, 38, shot dead Connie Morrison, 27, her sister Lorna, 34, and their mother’s partner Noel Patterson, 62, in Harlesden, north-west London.

The Yardie gangster fired eight shots into their heads because a ­relative had allegedly double-crossed him in a drugs deal. He had been ­deported twice before but managed to sneak back into Britain.

Lorna’s eight-month-old baby son Christanio was found crawling among their bodies on the bedroom floor 16 hours later.

Chung was prosecuted before PTA but even today there is little chance a Jamaican offender would be deported as the isle has refused to sign up – claiming it would be against its constitution.

Eight of the 522 Pakistanis in UK jails were in a gang convicted in May 2012 of raping and sexually abused up to 50 girls in Rochdale, Manchester.

In a case which horrified Britain, the victims were groomed with alcohol and gifts being before being forced to have sex with dozens of men.

Ringleader Shabir Ahmed, 60, who told the victims to call him “daddy”, got 19 years.

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Pakistani terrorist Rajib Karim.

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