An immigration judge has sparked fury after granting UK settlement to a Slovakian criminal, who claimed he has been "rehabilitated".
Speaking to GB News, former Editor of The Sun Kelvin MacKenzie hit out at the legal system handling such cases, asking: "What is going on?"
The 22-year-old criminal was jailed for 15 months after attacking a group of Slovakian party-goers with shovels, sticks, bats and metal bars in a car park in Stoke-on-Trent.
The Home Office pushed for the man’s deportation due to a "serious threat to the public" - however the move was blocked by upper immigration tribunal judge Christopher John Hanson, who claimed the Slovakian’s "rehabilitation appears to have been very successful as evidenced by the lack of further offending".
Kelvin MacKenzie has hit out at the decision of an immigration judge after blocking the deportation of a Slovakian criminal
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Discussing the case on GB News, MacKenzie criticised the system and "judges constantly competing against each other".
He explained: "The problem is this, I think we have judges of a low level who go into these immigration tribunals and as they go further up the ladder, occasionally they are rejected.
"You've got constant judges competing with each other, and getting things wrong."
Calling for the courts to have more of an input from the British public, MacKenzie added: "The problem is the British people aren't allowed a role in all this, because this is many times ECHR stuff."
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The Home Office had pushed to deport the criminal on the basis he was a 'serious threat to the public'
PAHost Patrick Christys then highlighted another case carried by Judge Christopher John Hanson, who "said a Ugandan killer jailed for life for brutally murdering a man in the back of an ambulance won't be deported either".
Patrick fumed: "It's their interpretation of it - there are certain people in society, it used to be doctors, that were put on a pedestal. You couldn't really question the good doctor's view, and that's changed now because of the sheer volume of medical negligence and the issues in the NHS.
"Teachers as well, I think we're on that level because of all the woke stuff, they're pumping children full of it. And now I think immigration judges have to be looked at. People say there has to be a separation of power between the politicians and the legal system."
In agreement with Patrick, MacKenzie suggested that there is "no one on the right" in Britain's legal system.
MacKenzie told GB News that there appears to be 'no one on the right' in Britain's judiciary
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MacKenzie concluded: "Why do we never, ever, ever have anybody from the right in our judiciary? We've got a human rights lawyer as our Prime Minister, so you know where he comes from. He's the leader of the Labour Party.
"And we have an Attorney General who controls those things that aren't being controlled by the Prime Minister. There's been a lot of press about Lord Hermer, and actually, most of it makes me feel very upset."
He added: "So why is it we never have anybody that we can honestly say that judge, that judgement, he speaks for us. Why is that? What stops us saying that?"
The judge also admitted that because the criminal's offence was committed when the UK was still in the EU, he was allowed to stay under pre-Brexit European rules.
He said: "If he offends in the future [after Brexit], he will not have the protection under EU law that he has benefited from on this occasion, which makes it harder to deport a person from the UK."
