Stop Importing Killers

Our courts no longer even pretend to care about British lives. Killer immigrants are escaping with derisory sentences - and then being allowed to stay here.

Cameron Arneaud - Killed by an illegal immigrant, then posthumously spat on by a weak judge.

Syed Bukhari is an illegal immigrant from Pakistan. He came to Britain on a student visa in 2022, but instead of returning home when his visa expired he disappeared into the “community” and remained here in violation of our laws. On 22 December last year he decided to violate some more laws; despite having neither a driving licence or insurance, he got in his car and went for a drive. He then drove through a Give Way sign without stopping and collided with 20-year-old motorcyclist Cameron Arneaud, killing him.

Where’s The Justice?

On 29 November Bukhari was convicted of causing death by careless driving at Northampton Crown Court. However, Judge Rupert Mayo is apparently quite relaxed about the idea of illegal immigrants driving around our towns killing people. He sentenced Bukhari to a derisory 30 weeks’ imprisonment, of which half will be served “on licence” - in other words, walking free on the streets where he committed his crimes. So the reality is that Syed Bukhari ignored our laws, killed a young man and got away with just 15 weeks behind bars.

The judge didn’t even order Bukhari’s deportation after he’s served his brief sentence, and of course there’s no chance he will be deported. After all he got married while living here illegally and his wife gave birth a few months ago, so by whatever twisted philosophy now passes for the rule of law in Britain that means he must now be allowed to stay here because of his “right to family life”. It goes without saying that if he was deported nobody’s going to stop his wife and child joining him in Pakistan, but that’s not good enough for the pro-immigration crowd. Despite him being a criminal who’s already killed someone and devastated a family, he’s apparently entitled to a family life here - and he’d have no trouble finding a lawyer willing to defend that “right” at the taxpayers’ expense.

Meanwhile 53-year-old carer Julie Sweeney is serving a 15-month sentence for posting a single comment in a private Facebook group. What kind of lunatic dystopia are we living in when saying something intemperate on social media is punished more harshly than killing someone?

The first duty of the British government is to protect the British people. We’re now at the point where it’s not failing in that duty so much as it’s completely abandoned it. If Bukhari had been tracked down, put on a plane and removed from Britain as soon as he overstayed his student visa, Cameron Arneaud would be alive today. Our broken immigration system didn’t do that, and almost certainly never even tried. However, is it really too much to ask that the courts now step in and send Bukhari back to Pakistan before he kills someone else? And before anyone tries claiming it’s unlikely he’ll break the law again, new figures from the Ministry of Justice show that around ten thousand offences are committed in Britain every year by foreign nationals who have already been in prison, then weren’t deported after their sentence. At least ten thousand victims. Thousands of them were robbed. Hundreds of them were assaulted. Dozens were raped. At least two were murdered. All because our system is either unable or unwilling to kick out foreign criminals.

Immigrants who come to Britain are guests in our home. We have a right to expect them to obey our laws, and if they don’t obey our laws they should be deported. No appeals, no second chances, no exceptions whatsoever; anyone who comes to this country then commits a crime here should be permanently expelled, never to return. And if our judges and politicians aren’t willing to do this, we need to replace them with new ones who are.