Failed Gateshead asylum seeker threatened to burn down flat while paramedics were inside

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/failed-gateshead-asylum-seeker-threatened-30253424

by IllustriousLynx8099

8 comments
  1. Lucky he didn’t tweet about threatening to burn down the flat or he’d actually be in jail right now instead of a suspended sentence.

  2. 4 month sentence suspended for 12 months?

    It has become impossible to deny that there isn’t two tiers in this country.

  3. Someone busy setting up their appeal to stay on grounds of ill mental health.

    Threatening paramedics or police should be instant deportation.

  4. > The court heard that Raswli had also been arrested earlier in the month after he claimed to be lying across railway tracks waiting for a train to hit him. He was located near the tracks and detained.

    So this man’s suicidal.

    > Heather Bolton, defending, said: “The offending all relates to problems with his status in this country and also the torture of his family at home. This appears to have massively impacted his mental health.”

    > Giving him a four-month prison sentence, suspended for 12 months, District Judge Paul Currer said: “These offences have occurred when you have become frustrated by the lack of progress with you application for asylum in this country. You were unhappy your application had been refused and you were having to go through the appeal process”

    > “It may well be that you find the process frustrating and annoying, but that does not provide you with an excuse to behave in a criminal manner and make criminal threats. Your offending is made more serious because the people you were threatening were people who were trying to help you.”

    Obviously what he did was wrong, but it’s not hard to see how someone could have mental health issues having to deal with our asylum system, plus the UK’s mental health treatment being generally shit to even citizens, let alone asylum seekers.

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