A news item in the Daily Telegraph on Wednesday 21st March 2012 stood out as it gave news that the British Government has refused the extradition of a British subject.
A pregnant woman of 28, Lucy Wright, has admitted to trying to smuggle 14lb of cocaine out of Argentina in March 2007, where she was caught at the Buenos Aires airport with the illegal substance in her luggage, which she admits to have been offered £10,000 to bring it into the UK.
After a night in prison she was bailed, but fled to Brazil where the British Consulate issued her with a replacement passport and was then able to fly home to Bolton.
On the face of it this young lady has a lot to answer for and has admitted her guilt. Added to this, she was arrested on her return to the UK and the Home Secretary, Theresa May, also approved her extradition to Argentina where, as the Daily Telegraph points out, she could have faced up to 16 years in prison. So why did the High Court in London rule against her extradition?
It seems, according to an expert witness, that as a woman and a foreigner facing prison in Argentina, she would have faced a lack of food, hygiene products and suffered humiliating strip searches by prison staff as well as facing attacks by fellow inmates. On this basis the court has ruled against her extradition, even though this increases the tension between Britain and Argentina which is making a lot of noise regarding the ownership of the Falklands Isles.
This, you may say, is what a British court of law and our Government should do when it comes to the protection and ensured well being of all British subjects. Sadly, this rule only applies to some as it depends on where an alleged offence took place.
So why then was Lucy Wright protected against the possibility of facing years in a brutal prison system where she could have so easily starved to death or murdered by other inmates, despite her admitted guilt, while business partners Jason McGoldrick and Michael Turner were forced to face very similar conditions in a Hungarian prison with the full consent of the British courts and Government? The answer, of course, is down to the disaster of our membership of the European Union and its grossly unjust European Arrest Warrant (EAW).
The irony of all this is, and the reason Theresa May granted extradition for Lucy Wright, was based on the fact that she had been caught red handed and the Argentinean authorities had provided substantial evidence of guilt, enough for the Home Secretary not to refuse extradition. However, Jason McGoldrick, who was arrested at Heathrow Airport after returning from a holiday with his heavily pregnant wife, and Michal Turner, who now have to go to court in Hungary for a supposed criminal offence which is not classed as a criminal offence in the UK, were forced to spend life threatening time in the most appalling conditions in a Hungarian prison.
They were attacked and beaten by other inmates, the food the prison provided was disgusting and inedible, and what possessions they were allowed to take into the prison with them were quickly stolen, yet our courts and our Government were not only powerless to stop this, under the rules of the EAW they literally had to comply and hand over these two British victims to whatever uncertain future and injustice awaited them. Had we not surrendered our national sovereignty for the sake of the sheer folly of EU membership these two men could, like Lucy Wright, have been saved the European Union created torture of such terrible conditions. They are now back in Hungary awaiting their trial which was brought about due to the failure of a business venture. It was thanks to the actions of the UKIP MEP, Lord Dartmouth, who managed to get them out of the Hungarian prison before they were killed by other inmates in there.
This tale of two extraditions is not the only tales of criminal EU created injustice, there are more, far too many as other European courts do not need to provide evidence of criminality to order the arrest of any British subject, Tony Blair abandoned the protection once given against extradition for the people of this land who it was his duty to serve and protect. David Cameron, despite his fine pre-election words and meaningless promises, will not serve and protect the British people either by telling the EU exactly where it can stuff its cruel and inhuman EAW – he too has abandoned the people of the once proud nation.
Janice Atkinson-Small has also written about the EAW and the European police state it has spawned in the Daily Mail, which is well worth reading.
A pregnant woman of 28, Lucy Wright, has admitted to trying to smuggle 14lb of cocaine out of Argentina in March 2007, where she was caught at the Buenos Aires airport with the illegal substance in her luggage, which she admits to have been offered £10,000 to bring it into the UK.
After a night in prison she was bailed, but fled to Brazil where the British Consulate issued her with a replacement passport and was then able to fly home to Bolton.
On the face of it this young lady has a lot to answer for and has admitted her guilt. Added to this, she was arrested on her return to the UK and the Home Secretary, Theresa May, also approved her extradition to Argentina where, as the Daily Telegraph points out, she could have faced up to 16 years in prison. So why did the High Court in London rule against her extradition?
It seems, according to an expert witness, that as a woman and a foreigner facing prison in Argentina, she would have faced a lack of food, hygiene products and suffered humiliating strip searches by prison staff as well as facing attacks by fellow inmates. On this basis the court has ruled against her extradition, even though this increases the tension between Britain and Argentina which is making a lot of noise regarding the ownership of the Falklands Isles.
This, you may say, is what a British court of law and our Government should do when it comes to the protection and ensured well being of all British subjects. Sadly, this rule only applies to some as it depends on where an alleged offence took place.
So why then was Lucy Wright protected against the possibility of facing years in a brutal prison system where she could have so easily starved to death or murdered by other inmates, despite her admitted guilt, while business partners Jason McGoldrick and Michael Turner were forced to face very similar conditions in a Hungarian prison with the full consent of the British courts and Government? The answer, of course, is down to the disaster of our membership of the European Union and its grossly unjust European Arrest Warrant (EAW).
The irony of all this is, and the reason Theresa May granted extradition for Lucy Wright, was based on the fact that she had been caught red handed and the Argentinean authorities had provided substantial evidence of guilt, enough for the Home Secretary not to refuse extradition. However, Jason McGoldrick, who was arrested at Heathrow Airport after returning from a holiday with his heavily pregnant wife, and Michal Turner, who now have to go to court in Hungary for a supposed criminal offence which is not classed as a criminal offence in the UK, were forced to spend life threatening time in the most appalling conditions in a Hungarian prison.They were attacked and beaten by other inmates, the food the prison provided was disgusting and inedible, and what possessions they were allowed to take into the prison with them were quickly stolen, yet our courts and our Government were not only powerless to stop this, under the rules of the EAW they literally had to comply and hand over these two British victims to whatever uncertain future and injustice awaited them. Had we not surrendered our national sovereignty for the sake of the sheer folly of EU membership these two men could, like Lucy Wright, have been saved the European Union created torture of such terrible conditions. They are now back in Hungary awaiting their trial which was brought about due to the failure of a business venture. It was thanks to the actions of the UKIP MEP, Lord Dartmouth, who managed to get them out of the Hungarian prison before they were killed by other inmates in there.
This tale of two extraditions is not the only tales of criminal EU created injustice, there are more, far too many as other European courts do not need to provide evidence of criminality to order the arrest of any British subject, Tony Blair abandoned the protection once given against extradition for the people of this land who it was his duty to serve and protect. David Cameron, despite his fine pre-election words and meaningless promises, will not serve and protect the British people either by telling the EU exactly where it can stuff its cruel and inhuman EAW – he too has abandoned the people of the once proud nation.
Janice Atkinson-Small has also written about the EAW and the European police state it has spawned in the Daily Mail, which is well worth reading.
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