Happy inmates were greeted by high-end motors including Lamborghinis, Rolls-Royces and Bentleys as they celebrated being granted early release today by the Labour Government. The Mail has more.
Hundreds of prisoners were greeted by family members and a bevy of high-end supercars including Lamborghinis, Rolls-Royces and Bentleys as they walked out of the gates.
More than 1,200 convicts who have served 40% of their sentences are being freed today under a scheme to tackle prison overcrowding, following on from 1,750 who were released last month.
Many of those were released lavished praise on Sir Keir Starmer for letting them out early, but there were some coming out who said they would probably end up back behind bars as they were being released with nowhere to go to.
Convicted armed kidnapper Daniel Dowling-Brooks shouted, “Big up Keir Starmer”, when released this morning and posed on a £150,000 brand new Bentley outside jail.
Elsewhere, a convicted money launderer’s family arrived in a Lamborghini to greet him at prison gates while another inmate was taken home in a Rolls Royce.
And a convicted drug dealer freed from HMP Holme House in Teesside told how he was had “a couple of girls who I might go and see”, after being “flat out on spice for two and half years”, adding: “I’ve come out skinnier than when I went in.”
About 25 prisoners were seen being released from HMP Ford in West Sussex, where cars arriving at the jail included a £350,000 white Rolls Royce Cullinan. …
Today’s emergency release of inmates to prevent overcrowding in prisons is the final tranche of the early release scheme, the Prime Minister’s official spokesman has now said.
Worth reading in full.
In the Spectator, David Shipley says on current trends more early releases will be needed in the spring, so expect this to be a recurring theme until a long-term solution is found.
It’s easy to blame Labour and Starmer, of course – or, in the criminals’ case, credit them. And Two-Tier Keir has not helped himself by banging up as many anti-immigration tweeters and protesters as he can. But we know it’s the Tories who spent 14 years not building the prisons we need for the level of crime we now have – and opening the borders to ensure a plentiful supply of new people and, naturally, new criminals. So, credit where credit’s due: big up Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss and Sunak as well. I’m sure they won’t want to be left out.
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