UK Border Agency Blamed For Illegal Emigrant Sex Offender Striking Again

It now seems that emigration officials are being blamed for allowing a convicted sex offender in South Lakeland to go on the run and cause yet another sex crime. The Cumbria Police said that the UK Border Agency did not tell them when the Bangladeshi illegal emigrant, Raju Ahmed, was released from jail after committing two sex assaults back in 2005.

This 28-year-old kitchen worker had come onto a 15-year-old girl while she was traveling alone on a train. The man was given a 12 month jail term for the assault on the girl. Tim Farron, the Westmorland and Losdale MP, has now described this communication failure as just outrageous.

The man in charge of public protection in Cumbria, Chief Supt Andy Slattery, said that Ahmed was due to be deported on the day that he was released from prison after serving a 90 day sentence for his assaults back in 2005. Both of these assaults were carried out on buses. Now, due to a lack of communication, a 15-year-girl has fallen victim to this man's ways.

He went on to say that, unfortunately, we were not informed in any way from the emigration service that the man had been released from prison. The man was told to report to the deportation center so that arrangements could be made, but of course, he went on the run right away.

Ahmed had first come to Britain from Dubai back in 2002. However, the man overstayed his six month visa and refused to leave. He was able to evade emigration officials for three years until he was caught in a raid at an Ulverston restaurant in 2005. This is when he was linked to the bus assaults.