The murder of young Alice Gross is a shocking thing though, after being missing for over a month, it must have been the expected outcome. However, what I find even more shocking is that the 'prime suspect', a man who has, himself, gone missing, is an immigrant with a previous conviction for murder.
Whether or not he committed this crime, why on earth was he allowed into the UK in the first place ? It's not as though his offence was a minor bit of speeding or other car crime and he hadn't been done for being drunk and disorderly; he had murdered his wife by beating and stabbing her and then buried the body in a shallow grave. Convicted of this brutal crime, he served 7 years in prison in his native Latvia before being released on licence and coming to the UK in about 2007; it seems that no one here bothered to check his past. It's also been suggested that he was arrested in 2009 for drugging and molesting another 14 year old girl, though this case were eventually dropped.
This is looking like another example of the hopelessness of our border controls and immigration service, this time having devastating consequences. Will those in charge never learn ?
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