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Migrant sex offender given £500 to be deported
Migrant sex offender Hadush Kebatu was given a payment of £500 to be deported, Sky News understands.
The discretionary payment was made due to his threats to disrupt his removal, it is understood, and the decision was an operational one made by removal teams, not ministers.
Kebatu was forcibly deported from the country overnight, with a team of five officers accompanying him on the flight to Ethiopia.
Sky News understands the decision to make the payment was made because the alternative was a slower and more expensive process, which would have included detention, a new flight and potentially fighting subsequent legal claims.
Costs of cancelling the flight alone would have run into several thousands of pounds, it is claimed.
I sort of guessed he would receive some sort of payment on leaving, no problem with that amount, which is peanuts to what he would have cost us.
I think my only argument is that the UK consider Ethiopia safe enough for the UK to return him. It's either safe for him or it's not, regardless of any crime being commited while here.
