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Foreign crooks get £2,000 to quit UK
Daily Express
|September 25, 2025
FOREIGN criminals are being offered up to £2,000 to leave on deportation flights, it is claimed.
FOREIGN criminals are being offered up to £2,000 to leave on deportation flights, it is claimed.
Almost 50 crooks were flown to Romania on Tuesday, with one shouting, “I did my mistake, I paid for it” as a TV crew was allowed to film it.
But murderers, sex offenders and thieves were all among the cohort given prepaid bank cards worth up to £2,000.
Officials defended the scheme, insisting it is cheaper for the Government to effectively pay foreign criminals to leave than order “enforced deportations” or keep them in jail.
It costs around £54,000 a year to house foreign offenders in English and Welsh prisons.
This story is from the September 25, 2025 edition of Daily Express.
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