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UK’s Deportation Scheme: only 8 Albanian criminals have been sent home, cost of £530k EACH!
The UK government’s ambitious plan to deport convicted Albanian criminals has turned into a costly and ineffective scheme, with just eight offenders returned home at an estimated cost of £530,000 each. Despite a £4.3 million payment to Albania to upgrade its prison system as part of a "groundbreaking" agreement, the vast majority of the 200 criminals originally earmarked for deportation remain in the UK—including rapists, murderers, and drug traffickers. One of them is Ibrahim Bezati, a man responsible for what a judge described as “every woman’s worst nightmare.” Along with two other Albanian men, Bezati kidnapped a woman from Bedford town centre, imprisoned her in a flat, forced her to take cocaine, and then raped her. She managed to escape after three hours, running into the street where a passerby called the police. “I need Mum,” she told a friend at the station. Yet despite his 17-year sentence, Bezati has not been sent back to Albania. The UK-Albania prisoner transfer agreement, signed in 2023, was supposed to facilitate the deportation of high-risk criminals to serve their sentences in Albania, where imprisonment costs a fraction of UK rates—£12,000 per year compared to £40,000. However, out of 1,270 Albanian prisoners in England and Wales, only eight have been deported under the deal. The agreement has so far proven to be a financial disaster, with UK taxpayers funding Albanian prison improvements, including 15 electric cars, 22 minibuses, training for prison staff, and security enhancements. Public outrage has been growing. William Yarwood from the TaxPayers’ Alliance called the situation “infuriating,” saying, “Taxpayers will be apoplectic at the astonishing amount of cash handed over to Albania with little in return. It is clear they are taking the sterling but not the subjects.” Another Albanian rapist, Klodjan Samurri, remains in the UK despite his seven-year sentence for attacking a woman in North London. After a night out with friends, the victim returned home, where Samurri and others were told they couldn’t stay the night. She went to bed, put on an eye mask, and woke up to find Samurri raping her. He was also expected to be deported under the scheme but appears to have evaded removal. Similarly, Koci Selamaj, who murdered 28-year-old primary school teacher Sabina Nessa in 2021, was among those listed for deportation. He ambushed her in a park, struck her over the head with a metal traffic sign, strangled her, and partially undressed her. Sentenced to a minimum of 36 years in prison, he later stabbed a guard in Broadmoor using a shard of porcelain from a broken toilet. The cost of keeping him in Broadmoor for the next 34 years exceeds £1.3 million, while his imprisonment in Albania would cost just £400,000—raising serious questions about the financial logic of keeping such criminals in Britain. Despite Albania’s Prime Minister Edi Rama dismissing the issue as involving only “a few bad apples,” Albanian criminal gangs are responsible for much of the UK’s cocaine and marijuana trade, often using extreme violence and human trafficking. Social media platforms, particularly TikTok, are flooded with advertisements offering illegal passage to the UK: “Go to England. £4,000. With boats. Every day,” reads one example exposed by the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network. Another states: “Departures every day. We can take families also. You come today and leave tomorrow.” While the UK government claims to be taking action, the Ministry of Justice has been unable to explain why so few Albanians have been deported. Bureaucratic red tape in Albania is reportedly delaying the process, frustrating Whitehall officials. However, considering that over £4 million has already been handed to Albania, these delays appear unacceptable. In an attempt to highlight progress, the UK government has pointed to its broader deportation efforts, stating that 2,925 foreign offenders have been removed since Labour took office—a 21% increase compared to the previous year. Among them were 1,610 Albanian criminals deported under the Early Removal Scheme (ERS), a system that allows foreign prisoners to be released up to 18 months early. However, this also means they serve less time than British criminals convicted of similar offences, weakening deterrence. Even more controversially, those deported under the ERS received £1,500 each as a "resettlement grant," administered by the Home Office. If they had family members, such as a spouse or children, they too could claim the grant and have their flights paid for. An additional £500 was provided for “vulnerable” offenders, such as those with mental health issues. Critics argue that, rather than serving as a deterrent, these financial incentives make deportation an attractive option. Worse still, many deported criminals have simply returned to the UK. Ardit Binaj was deported in 2016 after serving just six months of a two-and-a-half-year sentence but illegally re-entered the country within months. In 2023, he successfully appealed to stay in the UK, citing his “right to family life” under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). Others openly admit to coming back. When BBC reporters spoke to Albanian deportees at Tirana airport, one shrugged and said: “It’s not a problem for me. I’ll go back whenever I want.” Ultimately, the UK finds itself paying on both ends—funding Albania to take back criminals while also paying criminals to leave. With only eight criminals deported under the scheme, the British public is left footing a bill that delivers little in return. Based on a report by Daily Mail 2025-03-29 -
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Is this the end of Five Eyes?
Posts using derogatory and toxic nicknames or intentional misspelling of people’s names will be removed. If you don’t want your post to be removed, spell people’s names correctly, this applies to both sides of the political debate. -
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7.7 Quake Shakes Myanmar, Thailand on Alert for Aftershock
Huh wheres the great king for his people............that should do it again see ya -
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Trump Officials Discussed Secret Yemen Strike Plans on Signal, Accidentally Added Journalist
Trump at an October 2016 campaign rally said, "Hillary is the one who sent and received classified information on an insecure server, putting the safety of the American people under threat." But, but, but, but... The rules don't apply to Pete Hegseth, JD Vance, Mike Waltz, and Marco Rubio!!!1!1! Their 💩 don't stink. Thanks Jeffrey Goldberg! It's all your fault. 😄 -
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Group Medical Insurance Coverage
Group medical cover for students. All of them offer accident insurance for students. I approached a few insurance companies such as AXA and a broker. -
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BREAKING NEWS Skyscraper comes down in Bangkok earthquake
where did I say not possible. stop with your bs hey and grow up. good bye ..
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