Reform UK MP Rupert Lowe has called for the deportation of foreign criminals following the sentencing of men in one of the Rotherham rape gangs.
Speaking to GB News, Lowe criticised a judge’s decision to censor a victim’s statement requesting deportation of her abusers.
A Rotherham rape gangs survivor was ordered by a judge to remove a demand for her abusers to be deported.
The woman, who has her identity protected by court order, gave a moving statement in Sheffield Crown Court last week, over 20 years after she was groomed and abused from the age of 11.
Speaking to GB News, the Reform MP said: “It seems that the system is skewed towards protecting those people who perpetrate crime rather than suffer it.”
Reform UK MP Rupert Lowe has called for the deportation of foreign criminals
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He described the judge’s intervention as “extraordinary” and indicative of a failing multicultural society.
Lowe argued that foreign criminals and their dependents should be sent home, stating: “I really don’t see why British pensioners should suffer and pay for these people when ultimately many of them are going to freeze this winter.”
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Lowe highlighted alarming figures regarding foreign criminals in UK prisons.
He said: “There are something over 10,000 foreign criminals languishing in our prisons. And I think if people come here and they commit crime, they should be sent home.”
“It’s around about 10,300, including almost 1,500 Albanians, 856 Polish, 758 Romanians. The list goes on and on and on, and none of them have been deported.”
The victim, whose identity is protected, had intended to include a request in her impact statement for her abusers to be deported to Pakistan.
A victim of the grooming gangs scandal spoke out in court
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However, this section was ordered to be removed by the judge before delivery in court.
GB News revealed the censored conclusion: “I’d like to request that after sentencing and upon Rudy and Showabe’s release, that they should be deported back to Pakistan as this is where they originated from and came here to exploit children.”
Barrister Matthew Bean, acting for the crown, stated that deportation decisions were up to the Home Office, not the victim.
The survivor later told GB News: “If someone’s not born here and they’re here to exploit children, after the sentences they should be deported. Those men need to be deported or Pakistan should have its visas restricted.”
Rupert Lowe said that the “pensioners are freezing “
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Several politicians and legal experts have criticised the judge’s decision to censor the victim’s statement. Lee Anderson, Reform MP for Ashfield, said: “No ifs or buts, if they were born in a different country send them straight back.”
Former Home Secretary Suella Braverman called for “removing those offenders who are foreign-born back to their home countries immediately.”
Immigration barrister Paul Turner expressed bewilderment at the judge’s actions, stating: “I cannot see the legal basis to exclude her comments with respect to deportation.”
Tory MP Robert Jenrick tweeted: “Foreign sex abusers who came here and joined grooming gangs to exploit young girls should obviously be deported.”
