Philp: Labour 'presided over' mistaken prisoner releases

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Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp says the Labour Government have “presided over" the mistaken release of a second foreign national from prison, adding that they're "too weak" to come out of the ECHR, which he says would allow them to deport foreign criminals as their sentences end.  Report by Keechl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00The Labour government has been in office now for nearly a year and a half.

00:04They are responsible for running our prison system.

00:06They have presided over this mistaken release of an Algerian man with previous sex offence

00:11convictions.

00:12They presided over the mistaken release of Hadish Kabatou, the Ethiopian child sex attacker.

00:18There is an alternative path we could take.

00:20We could come out of the ECHR, and that would enable us to deport every single foreign criminal

00:26as soon as their sentence ends, but the Labour government is too weak to do that.

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