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Britain
UK: More foreign offenders 'released'
2006-05-27
The Home Office is looking into reports that hundreds of foreign offenders have been freed from secure hospitals with no consideration given to deportation. The Sun says police are seeking up to 500 former mental patients, including murderers, rapists and paedophiles.
Any clue yet amongst the staffers at the Home Office? No? Pity.
The Home Office said Home Secretary John Reid had ordered officials to identify exactly how many foreigners had passed through UK secure hospitals. Police are still seeking some of more than 1,019 foreigners freed from jail.

Updating MPs on the foreign prisoner crisis earlier this week, Mr Reid admitted no information on the nationality of offenders in mental institutions had been collected and none had been considered for deportation or even referred to the Immigration and Nationality Directorate.

The three secure hospitals in England where mentally-ill prisoners are held are at Broadmoor in Berkshire, Rampton in Nottinghamshire and Ashworth on Merseyside.
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