This week's Migration Monitor is punctuated by news of terrible tragedies - and of growing frustration and farce, as the UK's migrant crisis continues to intensify.
At the start of the week, we received reports of a horrific triple stabbing in West London.
By Tuesday, the Government confirmed the suspect, Afghan national Safi Dawood, arrived in the UK in the back of a lorry in 2020.
Two years later, he was granted asylum and leave to remain.
On Thursday, the 22-year-old appeared in court charged with the murder of local Uxbridge resident Wayne Broadhurst and the attempted murder of a 45-year-old man and a 14-year-old boy.
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Mr Broadhurst's family issued a heartfelt tribute, in which they describe him as a "devoted hardworking man who spent his life serving his community. His love for animals showed the gentle heart behind his strong work ethic."
This week saw the conviction of a Somali asylum seeker, who attacked and murdered a father of three in Derby.
Haybe Cabdiraxmaan Nur arrived in the UK by small boat last year.
He was reportedly deeply frustrated after being turned down for asylum and had threatened to murder hundreds of people.
After consuming a large amount of alcohol, he phoned a migrant help hotline and told staff he planned to kill doctors and police and Home Office workers.
Instead, he walked into a branch of Lloyds Bank in Derby city centre on May 6 and stabbed bank customer Gurvinder Johal in the Chest.
The 37-year-old, who had been waiting in a queue to be served, died despite efforts to save him.
His killer was jailed for life, with a minimum of at least 25 years in prison.
Arguably, the country's most notorious Foreign National Offender (FNO) was recaptured on Sunday, after a highly embarrassing mistake saw him accidentally freed from prison.
Hadush Kebatu's actions sparked the recent wave of nationwide migrant hotel protests after he sexually assaulted a 14-year-old schoolgirl outside the Bell hotel in Essex.
But authorities turned understandable concern around this case into absolute fury when the mistake over his early release was compounded by a bribe to leave the UK quietly.
Early on Wednesday morning, the Home Office notified me that the Ethiopian small boat migrant had landed back in Addis Ababa.
But the relief amongst officials was short-lived.
Within hours, came the confirmation that Kebatu had been paid £500 to go without a fuss.
He'd apparently been threatening to disrupt efforts to remove him, including threats to lodge a last-minute appeal to claim asylum.
The Prime Minister said he agreed with the decision to pay Kebatu, as the alternative would have meant spending many thousands more, and a protracted battle trying toremove him.
That logic will be lost on many, who will see a notorious sex offender holding the country to ransom and being rewarded with a wad of cash in return.
I'd like to leave you on a more positive note, but I'm afraid I can't.
At the time of writing this, the Home Office has just confirmed the so-called 'Hokey Cokey' migrant is still in the UK, a fortnight after arriving back over the Channel.
The Iranian man, who arrived by small boat on August 6, was one of the first to be removed under the returns deal with France.
He was flown to Paris on September 19th. Just 29 days later, he arrived back across the Channel in another migrant boat.
Despite the fact that France has already accepted his return once, the process of trying to repeat that seems painfully slow.
Officials say he should be returned within the coming days as part of a scheme that has so far only seen 75 returns to France in almost three months.
Over that same period, more than 11,000 small boat migrants have arrived illegally in the UK.