UK wants Australia, former colony, to keep its criminals  TWO hundred years ago its worst citizens were transported to the other side of the world, creating Australia in the process. Now cash-strapped Britain wants its former colony to keep its criminals again.In the past 12 months, dozens of British-born paedophiles, rapists and career criminals, many in their late 50s and 60s, were deported to the UK after finishing their sentences in Australian jails, despite having lived most of their lives Down Under.Among them was notorious paedophile Raymond Horne, who was given a police escort through Heathrow Airport amid British outrage over his forced return from Queensland.UK campaigners fear that a lack of connection to their former homeland, including no support base of family and friends, makes serial offenders more likely to reoffend.Australia last year jettisoned more than 60 criminals to their countries of origin, mostly the UK and New Zealand.

who cares? keep em in Aus - they are more at home there among their own kind!!! lol

Once a POM always a POM

We cant even kick it out of em once we get them here (sigh)

with a name like horne i guess it was always going to happen

mmmmmm

then again my nickname is FLASH

better change that:0

I can understand Australia wanting to get rid of people like that. Its a pity our government wasn't quite so eager to get of some of ours.

Human rights law prevents that half the time.

Those kind of peoples should not be a live on this earth at the first place..

If they hold an "English" Passport kick them out to their home land,why do us tax payers have to keep them in our Prison Hotel rooms and that goes for any other nationality including New Zealand.

And Visa Versa if Australians etc are in another country playing with fire return them here and take their passports from them,traveling is a privilege not to be abused.

You want to live in another country permanently my opinion is become a Citizen and enjoy paying for what we have not destroy it.

This is one of the rare occasions I agree with Iain - keep the sex offenders in Aussie. In any case they'd be more at home among you sheep sha**ers :-)

That's what we are worried about cross breeding with a Pom,we like our sheep clean,not covered with Dags and Gorse! :-)

the mother country ...always looking out for your welfare

solution:

send em all back to the area of Iain and PeterH61's live. I'm sure they are missing their own relative.

As they haven't taken out Australian citizenships, legally Australia is allowed to ship them back to where they were born, its that simple. Tough luck for the UK, the law is the law, lol

AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE - OI OI OI!!

regardless of the topic.