Fury as more than 18,000 foreign criminals living in Britain – THREE times more than eight years ago

MORE than 18,000 overseas criminals are retired connected the streets - 3 times the magnitude conscionable 8 years ago.

The Home Office figures sparked fury and caller demands for Labour to further ramp up deportations.

At the extremity of September past twelvemonth immoderate 18,069 overseas nationalist offenders were surviving successful the assemblage having served a prison sentence.

The fig has much than tripled since 2017 erstwhile 5,933 overseas convicts were successful Britain.

Immigration curate Seema Malhotra said: “We volition proceed to prosecute deportation enactment against individuals surviving successful the assemblage rigorously, actively monitoring and managing cases done the ineligible process and moving hard to flooded immoderate barriers to removal.”

She dug retired the stats successful effect to a parliamentary question from Tory MP Neil O’Brien, who lashed retired astatine lefty lawyers thwarting removals.

He told The Sun: “The information is that until the authorities stops putting quality rights concerns implicit the British people, much and much dangerous overseas criminals volition beryllium connected our streets erstwhile they should beryllium being deported.

“The fig of radical being deported successful the past fewer years has collapsed and thing the authorities is presently doing volition hole that.

“Many volition besides beryllium surviving connected benefits astatine the disbursal of British taxpayers.”

Several blocked attempts to instrumentality overseas offenders person sparked incredulity successful caller weeks.

The Sun revealed how a Jamaican antheral who raped a sleeping pistillate was allowed to enactment aft claiming helium was bisexual and would look favoritism backmost home.

The Home Office insists it is hiking deportations, with 16,400 removed successful the six months since the predetermination - the highest successful fractional a decade.