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November 26, 2018 Longrider General News, General Rants, misanthropy, Political 7

Okay, so it doesn’t…

Kweku Adoboli has received a warm welcome in Ghana but badly misses his old life in UK

Well, if he hadn’t committed a massive fraud, he wouldn’t have been deported, would he? However, what struck me was this:

“In Ghana the concept of restorative justice exists, something that seems absent in the UK. People here are saying to me: ‘We need your skills, let’s get you back into the community. It’s not right or fair the way you were treated in the UK. Everyone makes mistakes and everyone deserves a chance to redeem themselves.’”

Bollocks. Seriously, this is entirely untrue. There are organisations – Network Rail being one – that have programmes in place to train offenders in new skills to get them into the workplace. So claiming that we do not do restorative justice is cack. A big fat hairy lie.

The reason Adoboli was not given this option is because he is not  a British citizen and therefore we are under no obligation to him. That the Ghanaians wish to give him that opportunity is all right and proper – he is a Ghanaian citizen. Let them take care of him.

What appalls here is once again the mainstream media allows a lie – fake news if you like – to enter their pages without a hint of challenge. And they wonder why we regard them with utter contempt.

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  2. Some people seem to be incapable of accepting responsibility for the way their actions impact on their own lives. While I accept that people deserve a second chance and, given that chance, they may become useful citizens, this guy still needs to realise that the situation that he finds himself in is down to his own actions and that nobody else is to blame but him.

  3. What is absent from the article is any sense that Adoboli is remorseful for his crimes, he just comes across as an entitled whiner, upset that he is having to pay the consequences of his crimes. His only regret is that he got caught.

    I haven’t taken Australian citizenship, confident that I shall never commit a crime that would cause them to deport me.

  4. What appalls here is once again the mainstream media allows a lie – fake news if you like – to enter their pages without a hint of challenge. And they wonder why we regard them with utter contempt.

    Spot on. MSM always takes side of foreigner, immigrant etc except when Lefty Brit locked up in foreign country.

    On “Network Rail train offenders” (Eh?) – don’t forget Timpsons

  5. ‘So claiming that we do not do restorative justice is cack.’

    Well not entirely. We do not do restorative justice if it involves ‘crimes against wimmin’ and a celebrity.

  6. Adoboli was jailed for seven years in 2012 after being found guilty of fraud that cost UBS $2.3bn (£1.8bn). He was released after serving half his sentence. He was born in Ghana but left when he was four and has lived in the UK since he was 12.

    Adoboli’s legal team argued that after he served his sentence for banking fraud, he had dedicated himself to public speaking and hosting workshops about improving probity in the finance sector, and warning people against making the kind of errors he did while working for UBS.

    He has been working with the Forward Institute, which promotes responsible leadership in business and society, and evidence of this was submitted to the court.

    Judge Ockelton, who heard his most recent application, said if Adoboli wanted to continue giving talks, he could do so via video link from Ghana.

    Snigger

    At least Mr. Justice Cocklecarrot had a sense of humour.

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