An Albanian man who entered the UK illegally on two separate occasions has been jailed after he was found at a cannabis farm worth thousands.
Endrit Neza tended to around 300 cannabis plants - which had a potential value of between £28,000 to £120,000 - at an address in Newcastle.
The 30-year-old, who returned to England after being deported in 2017, was arrested after police raided a property on Malvain Avenue on August 24 this year and found the cannabis farm.
They don't say how. Probably just waltzed in past all our 'defences'.
Sophia Allinson, defending, told the court Neza came to the UK out "dire financial necessity", saying: "He didn't intend to commit criminal activity like this."
Given he was committing a criminal offence by coming into the country at all, that doesn't ring quite true, eh, Sophia?
There are several ways of making sure that he doesn't come back a third time, or failing those, there are various measures that make sure he doesn't want to.
ReplyDeleteHowever, one good measure would be to make sure that his legal representative(s) would have to give an undertaking to be responsible for him and his behaviour henceforth. That might stop some of the legal claptrap being spouted.
It always amazes me that these ridiculous - and obviously false - pleas in mitigation never give rise to discipline proceedings against the barrister by the trial judge and/or the Inns of Court. This particular example is manifestly a load of rubbish and is, at the very least, a waste of the court's time. BTW I assume the UK taxpayer is coughing up for Sophia's time and "expertise".
ReplyDeleteHmm, so 'literally' 10% of the entire Albanian population have managed to 'sneak past' the border farce without anyone noticing, eh?
ReplyDeleteThe "dire financial necessity" is real, he has to pay off the criminal gangs (otherwise known as the Albanian government)that encourages, supports, supplies (you might want to look at 'who' is buying all those 'rubber dinghy's' for them), facilitates and funds this 'immigration' so as to have access to all the benefits (there are, again literally, entire villages and towns that have been rebuilt and now live in luxury courtesy of the British tax-payer).
This invasion is an undeclared act of war, and until I see the bombing of Tirana (preferably a la Pinochet airlines) I can't see it stopping short of a great deal of FIBUA and Powell levels of results flowing down British thoroughfares (and it 'will' come to that eventually).
"...or failing those, there are various measures that make sure he doesn't want to."
ReplyDeleteIf only we had a Home Sec with the balls to employ those methods...
"It always amazes me that these ridiculous - and obviously false - pleas in mitigation never give rise to discipline proceedings against the barrister by the trial judge and/or the Inns of Court."
The whole system is rotten.
"This invasion is an undeclared act of war, and until I see the bombing of Tirana (preferably a la Pinochet airlines) I can't see it stopping short of a great deal of FIBUA and Powell levels of results flowing down British thoroughfares (and it 'will' come to that eventually)."
I can't see it stopping, ever.