An Albanian wanted for murder in his home country has won the right to remain in the U.K. under the European Convention on Human Rights, renewing calls for the U.K. to quit the treaty. The Telegraph has the story.
Fatmir Bleta, 64, left Albania two months after allegedly shooting a man in the head with a Kalashnikov rifle, for which he was convicted and sentenced in his absence to 13 years in prison [so why “allegedly”?]
He came to Britain with his family and sought asylum by falsely claiming to be Kosovan, a deception for which he was jailed for 33 months and two weeks in 2018.
Bleta, who has four children, successfully fought off an extradition attempt by Albania to serve the sentence by claiming he would not be entitled to a re-trial and was not told of the proceedings in advance.
In a new judgment – revealed in documents seen by the Telegraph – Bleta has succeeded in resisting an attempt by the Home Office to deport him on the grounds that it would breach his Article 6 rights to a fair trial under the ECHR.
He also appealed under Article 8 of the convention that deportation would breach his right to a family life as it would be “unduly harsh” on his loved ones.
The case comes after the Telegraph disclosed earlier this week that an Albanian criminal who sneaked back into Britain after being deported won the right to stay because deporting him would be “unduly harsh” on his family and breach the ECHR’s article 8.
It sparked fresh calls for the U.K. to quit or seek reform of the ECHR. Robert Jenrick, the former Immigration Minister and Tory leadership contender, said: “Yet again the ECHR has been used by activist judges to prioritise the rights of a criminal over the safety of the British public.
“It’s a disgrace. We will only be able to get the thousands of dangerous foreign criminals out of our country if we leave. Reform is a fantasy. It’s leave or remain – I’m firmly from leave.”
Kemi Badenoch, the Shadow Housing Secretary and Tory leadership rival, said the Government should be prepared to quit the ECHR if necessary but warned that such a move alone will not solve the migrant crisis.
The Telegraph has also established that two of Bleta’s children have been convicted and jailed for drug offences. Son Dorian, 37, is serving an 18-year prison sentence for trafficking cocaine while daughter Sara, 28, a former actress, was jailed for four years for supplying class A and B drugs.
Worth reading in full.
Why, after 14 years of Conservative Government failing to make headway on this, does Kemi still think we need to establish whether leaving the ECHR is necessary? How long does the party need to work this one out?
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“Johnson, like any layman in such circumstances, was out of his depth.”
Cobblers. He’s no dummy. “Laymen” in leadership positions are always listening and evaluating “expert” advice and having a working bullshit detector is part of the job. For goodness’ sake we here all worked this out pretty early on. I’m no genius.
Anyway, it’s not about “one man” – he was one of many cogs in a wicked global wheel that is still cranking full tilt.
If he was out of his depth, the failings were moral, not intellectual.
Precisely.
He knew it was just a cough. He folded like paper in an origami master’s hands.
He had a chance at his Thatcher moment. This time it could have been a chance to get global attention and admiration. But he flopped. Intellectually idle. No moral compass.
I believe he could have put Britain back on the map. Could have been a true statesman. Boris, you fuc*ed up, mate, and you chose the wrong bedfellows. Now you must lie with them for eternity.
Damned right tof.
Bozo failed as a man and basically caved in to the Satanic evil of the Davos Deviants. More than likely he has been blackmailed but instead of thinking of King and Country he wimped out like a cowardly school boy. He is and always will be just like Bliar and many others, a coward.
Bullingdon Club. What else can we expect?
Let’s not forget, after treating the country like a bunch of expendable half-wit pawns, he added to the blood on his hands by extending the war in Ukraine and stamping about with his usual bluster on getting evil Putin and spouting “Slava Ukrain.”
Made me sick.
Good point.
….and a visit to I*rael (who paid for that I wonder) to entertain the troops as they continued their slaughter of Gaza’s population.
Turned out to be a ballless wonder…
Boris is lazy and has never learned from his previous experiences. He fought hard for the role, and then like so many others, found it not to his liking.
Sunak is the same and when confronted with making a decision looks around him for someone else, instead of realising he is the someone.
Then they get ‘bored’ and interfere overseas instead of running their own Country.
To be a real leader you have to love your Country and it’s People and put them before yourself. The late Queen would be an example, although she was not a political Leader.
The sequence of relationships he has gone through demonstrates that fact. In the main, I never listened to his output after 2019.
Bunter hasn’t disappointed me in any way because I never took him seriously. Even as a long time Brexiteer activist I couldn’t bring myself to give him my vote in 2019.
Leave him in the gutter along with all the other similar Tory sewer rats because that’s where he belongs.
This fetish for comparing Johnson and Churchill is absolutely comical.
Not sure how it got started. Perhaps by Johnson himself.
If Johnson is to be compared to anyone it should be to the worst prime minister in history and then only to replace him.
Why do people keep trotting out the line that Johnson was an obvious libertarian, when all his actions have proven otherwise
Three issues with Johnson:
1. Jezebelic, ruthlessly ambitious wife
2. Carbonocrat, therefore globalist
3. Plays the fool so you underestimate him.
The man inherited an 80 seat majority so could have seen the UK as energy independent, free of the ECHR, secure borders, Singaporesq economy.
His judgment is totally compromised and despite his pretensions as a historian, has no love for Britain’s Judeo-Christian heritage.
In summary, a charlatan.
While I agree with your comments I believe you are underestimating Bozo’s malevolence and treachery.
Just gave you a thumbs up and you got 12 and one thumbs down. Not sure who’s running the DS computer? Toby’s shed roof must be leaking.
Thank you.
It is a FACT that five days before Johnson announced the first lockdown, his Government downgraded Covid from a High Consequence Infectious Disease – with the justification that they had more data and the virus had low rates of mortality.
It would have taken several weeks for the scientists to reach that conclusion; get Government agreement for the downgrading, approve the Comms and publish on the Government’s website.
Yet Johnson locked down five days later, along with most of western Europe and the Anglosphere.
I think the NATO and Five Eyes countries were ordered to lockdown by the USA “Big State.” It’s noticeable that at that time, Sweden, which didn’t lockdown, was not in NATO.
Johnson was no Churchill. He wasn’t even a Thatcher. The better comparison, if one must be made, is with Chamberlain. And even then, he’s the inferior of the two.
“Government downgraded Covid from a High Consequence Infectious Disease”
I believe that the reason for this was that if the C1984 was left at HCID current legislation means that all potentially viable prophylactics had to remain available. By downgrading they were able to ban Ivermectin and Hydroxichloroquine.
In other words they knew from the off that C1984 wasn’t a killer and would be easily treated with Ivermectin and Hydroxichloroquine. As the end game was getting the poisonous “vaccines” in to as many arms as possible this couldn’t be allowed.
Excellent point!
I’ll always agree with you on this Hux it is and was always about the toxic sludge. The only way they could get people to take it were the lockdowns and the stabs were sold as people’s only way out of house arrest.
Johnson certainly damaged our country’s economy and nation’s health more than Hitler’s bombs ever did. In addition he is responsible for the destruction of Ukraine and 500,000 deaths although he has managed to inflate his wealth somewhat, a coincidence I am sure!