Uomo accusato in relazione alla presunta violenza su minori di Saggart

I’d love to know the stat for asylum applicants who commit a serious act of violence or sexual assault, are caught and prosecuted, and are still in Ireland – albeit living in some secure facility – prison or mental health.

If asylum applicants who commit such crimes were immediately catapulted back to the region they came from (as opposed to being detained here) I wonder if we would see a drastic reduction in such crimes ?

Irish prisons are plush even by UK standards (our nearest neighbour), apparently. I imagine they are like 5 star hotels compared to the 3rd world.

I just wonder if asylum applicants aren’t appropriately disincentivised against committing serious crimes in Ireland. If committing serious crime here means remaining here long term, and getting three hot meals a day, and centrally heated accommodation, and TV, and laundry taken care of, etc etc etc … not only do they have nothing to lose by committing such serious crimes, they in fact have quite a lot to gain.

Being imprisoned only has a deterrent element when it is a sufficient step down from the lowest typical living standards of the populace. If it’s a step up … you have lost the deterrent element, and may even encourage crime.

Which is also another reason why ‘self deport’ notices are an absolute joke.

Not named however The accused was granted legal aid and assigned an Arabic interpreter (Irish Times). The time is well passed to reform the asylum seeker laws FFG

The amount of Irish men up in court for similar offences in the last few weeks and no outrage…