BURNING UP THE BRITISH TAXPAYERS MONEY
ALREADY £300 000 POUNDS AND COUNTING!
ALREADY £300 000 POUNDS AND COUNTING!
Please help me, my name is Rashid
and I want out of the UK
You know it’s got to be bad when an already over loaded immigration system can’t even manage to deport someone who has tried to leave the UK on his own six times, but keeps being sent back, in the wrong direction. KGS
Six-year farce of asylum seeker who wants to go home and has been trying to escape FROM Britain
Unlike the many asylum seekers desperate to remain in Britain, all Rashid Ali wants is to leave and get out of the cold.
The 31-year-old Moroccan has spent the past six years trying to escape and has stowed away on cargo ships at least six times.
Yet more than 12 months after a judge vowed to ‘kick some backsides’ and get him deported, he remains stuck in the system.
He is being held in a detention centre costing taxpayers more than £100 a night.
Immigration officials say they will not send him home until he produces his passport, as the authorities in his native country will not allow him in without proof that he is one of its citizens.
But Ali ripped up his passport and identity papers on arriving in Britain in 2004, hoping he would have more chance of gaining asylum if he pretended to be Algerian.
It was in December 2008 that Judge Michael Hubbard, QC, vowed to ‘kick some backsides’, saying he would write to government ministers to make sure Ali was promptly repatriated.
But with border officials still at an impasse with Moroccan authorities, there appears little prospect of Ali being allowed to leave, even though the saga has cost the public more than £300,000.