Two asylum seekers who stole £25k gold Rolex in London’s Soho allowed to walk free

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1. Comin’ to our country, stealin’ the jobs of our thieves!

2. Justice not seen to be done. Why is this allowed to happen? Why do we believe their asylum claim?

3. Cancel their claim and deport both of these scum criminals. Anyone committing serious offences such as these while making an asylum claim is showing complete contempt to the society that they wish to be a part of and total contempt for UK law and order.

4. Don’t worry guys, there was no room in jail because someone posted a cartoon about them.

5. Meanwhile, some guy gets 3 years for kicking a bus and laughing. No wonder people are pissed off.

6. Let them walk free to save space in jail.

   Has anyone considered, I don’t know, deporting them? Stupid fucking country that we live in, a schoolkid could tell you what to do in this situation…

7. Imagine if robbers were citizens who pay taxes.
   Jail time guaranteed

8. I don’t really understand UK courts and law. Such news are taking people out on streets. UK cannot care for itself and it’s citizens 🙁 misinterpreting humanity and shooting itself in the leg

9. And how is it that people who speak against such shameless 2 tier policing and justice processes are branded as far-right racist nazi-fascists?

10. But tweet something controversial and you get 2 years

11. Why were they free to leave the asylum centre in the first place?! Until their claims have been processed, they’re not legally allowed to be in Britain so shouldn’t be allowed onto British streets!

12. I always think of that case of pc Beshenivsky in situations like this, shot by asylum seekers in an armed robbery where one of them fled to Somalia in a burkha despite saying that he would be killed if he returned there. There should be no tolerance for this because the stakes get higher and the scumbags get more cavalier.

13. Committing a crime should invalidate an asylum claim and lead to deportation.

    If they can’t not commit crime when they are claiming I imagine they will probably commit crimes if granted asylum. Plus it probably shows a lack of willingness to abide by the laws of the land.

14. If you commit a crime when seeking asylum then your claim should be automatically denied. We’re far too soft in this country

15. Asylum seekers who commit any crimes should immediately have their application revoked with instant deportation. Additionally, if asylum seekers take [a trip home](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/08/16/asylum-seekers-in-germany-risk-deportation-holiday-country/) to visit a country they’re ostensibly fleeing from, that should also be an instant ban…

    We need a fundamental reform of all the refugee legal conventions, because it should just not be okay for asylum seekers to literally mug people and stay in the country – utterly insane.

16. Labour wants voters, by giving everyone who comes citizenship they think they’re going to get more votes.

17. Of course they are, probably given a house and free money every month and free education and free healthcare and food vouchers, let off crime after crime because we don’t want to upset the disgusting scum do we! This will probably be removed too knowing the agenda the media and social media platforms push.

18. “Allowed to walk free” they got sentenced to serve community service which is in line with the punishment of that crime.

    However, I do agree this should go against their claim of asylum which it most likely would.

19. How can anyone who commits a crime in any country avoid going to prison?

    If I committed a crime in USA, Chile, Egypt, Japan or anywhere then I’d be deported or straight to prison.

20. What do you expect?

    We only lock up people for hurting feelings in this country.

    Violent robbing and traumatising someone (whilst being someone who’s got no fucking god given right to be in this country) is small fry comparatively.

21. Lmao, you guys are fuckers really. There was a story not long ago where a lady got a very expensive watch stolen. All you guys were telling me that it’s her fault that her watch was stolen, as she shouldn’t have been dumb enough to wear it.

    Now a guy got a £25k watch stolen by some asylum seekers, suddenly they’re the bad ones! The man should be able to wear his £25k rolex.

22. Why are they allowed to stay? I’m sure there’s people *genuinely* seeking asylum that would be more deserving.

    Just fuck these two shits back off where they came from.

    Shit like this serves no purpose other than making the justice system look pathetic and painting asylum seekers in a poor light.

23. Didn’t actually walk free though did they? Got community service.

24. Why is the value of the Rolex watches relevant? Had a poorer person been robbed of a £50 watch the trauma experienced would be the same.

25. Some argue they should be deported, as their asylum claim should be revoked after committing a crime. Others question why the underlying motivations for their actions matter if they’re still receiving what they want without complaint.

26. If you come here for asylum you should be held to the highest possible account. They have proven themselves unworthy and should be deported or imprisoned until such time as we can be sure they won’t be a threat.

    Unfortunately this is the sort of no brainer story that generates support for the far right.

27. Why is their asylum claim being allowed if they attacked and robbed a member of the public? Even worse, they received a slap on the wrist (probably because all jail spaces are being saved for protesters/rioters).

    People are going to jail for years for posting online, yet actual attackers/robbers are just getting community service?

28. So they got 150 hours commuity service, and they’re effectively confined to their asylum residence most of the day. That seems reasonable given the prison situation.

    However, it is nuts that someone can commit a crime while awaiting asylum status and not have that immediately veto their claim.

    I get that you might have a case where someone has committed a petty theft and is definitely going to be tortured or executed if they’re returned to their home country, and the question becomes do you send them to that fate? But the flip side is, do you essentially allow someone to hold themselves hostage, as you’re unable to return them no matter how they behave or what laws they break?

29. We really do need to be stricter. If you come here you cannot commit crime. If you do, you’re deported

30. Fingers crossed they say something offensive on Facebook, that’ll do it.

31. Good job they didn’t post anything on FB/twitter. They would have got 3 years.

32. The United Kingdom, as a country and a collective government as a whole, are a laughing stock being taken advantage of by the very people who we take on and protect.

    I mean, we can’t even imprison migrants or immigrants who’ve done some really serious things without being criticised by the criminal system and thus set free, and if we say anything against those people we are called “racist.” What they forget is, we also call white villains who are caught in the act but somehow we are immediately racial or anti-this and that for supporting our heritage too.

    If you can’t walk around proudly with the flag of your country, there’s something wrong. Any downvotes will prove my point

33. I’m starting to think about leaving the UK. Joke, the justice system is not keeping us safe.

34. Why? I am not into immigrant bashing but I honestly do not understand why British law is so lax on criminals. It doesn’t matter where they came from or how they got to this point. They robbed a man, they should go to jail, end of.

35. This country is so fucking weak on immigration

    If someone commits a serious crime while awaiting asylum it should be an automatic boot, if they cannot legally be deported for some reason then lock them up

    Not enough prisons? Build emergency ones – funny how we managed to build emergency hospitals during covid but cannot do something for this crisis