Conservative Party Deputy Leader Lee Anderson says Keir Starmer must accept some of the responsibility after a dangerous Albanian crime boss managed to avoid deportation.
Gjelosh Kolicaj, 42, managed to retain his British citzenship after claiming that attempts by the Home Secretary to expel him breached his human rights.
He was jailed for six years for smuggling £8 million of his gang’s profits out of the UK in suitcases that he brought onto planes using his British passport.
According to Lee Anderson, the Labour leader played a role in the “precedent” set for criminals like Kolicaj being able to avoid deportation.
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GB News presenter Martin Daubney told Anderson that Starmer has a “record of defending people who’ve breached human rights”.
He added that the Labour leader has “fought the corner of some pretty dodgy characters” during his legal career.
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Kolicaj was jailed for six years for smuggling £8 million of his gang’s profits out of the UK in suitcases
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Anderson concurred with the sentiment, adding: “Let’s not forget when in the past, we’ve tried to deport foreign rapists and murderers.
“I always hop back to the Jamaica flight a couple of years back in December, 2021.
“There was a plane ready to go to Jamaica, full of criminals. It had rapists, murderers, child sex offenders. He was one of the MPs that signed a letter stopping it.
“I think one of the people on that flight actually went onto murder again and another couple on there went on to commit some horrific sexual attacks.
“They should apologise for that. They won’t.”
The Labour leader signed a letter in 2020 calling for 50 dangerous offenders not to be deported on a flight to Jamaica.
Following the intervention seven of the criminals went on to commit more violent or drug-related crimes.
A spokesman for the Party claimed the letter signed by Starmer made no difference when “the Tories have left the department responsible for our national security unable to deal with violent and serious criminals”.
“It’s the Government’s failure to sort out their own legal systems or put someone on another flight that is responsible for these crimes, not some letter," they told The Sun.