Revealed: courts let dangerous foreign criminals stay in Britain

Dangerous foreign criminals are beating the Home Office to remain in the UK at the end of their prison sentences.

An investigation has uncovered scores of cases where offenders from overseas, including killers and sex attackers, have been able to stay in Britain despite strenuous attempts by the Government to deport them.

The findings demonstrate how criminals are using the 1998 Human Rights Act to avoid being sent back to their homelands – despite a pledge by Gordon Brown to remove any foreigner who breaks the law.