Immigrants & Crime

[Richard Littlejohn]

Foreign criminals are expanding into rural towns to exploit profits from drug dealing and people smuggling, an investigation revealed yesterday.

The highly-organised international gangs have penetrated seaside resorts and previously quiet towns and villages.

The gangs include Jamaican Yardies selling crack in Hereford, Albanians running prostitution rings in Hampshire and vicious Chinese Snakeheads smuggling cockle pickers into Britain to work in Morecambe.

The findings were made by respected journalist Rageh Omaar, for a series called Crime Invasion: Britain's New Underworld, which began last night on the satellite channel Virgin 1 TV.

Mr Omaar said: "Crime in the UK is changing and making the series has shown me that it is happening right underneath our noses."



Romanian fraud gangs were found to be responsible for 85 per cent of cashpoint crime in the UK and 85 per cent of illegal credit card "skimming".

Since January 1, they have had free access to the UK as a result of EU expansion.

It is estimated that in excess of 20,000 Chinese find their way illegally into the UK each year. The cheap labour is imported by Triad and Snakehead gangs, who are also heavily involved in extortion and gambling.
Chinese citizens, who pay up to £20,000 to be smuggled into the country, are sold to gangmasters to pick cockles or fruit, or made to work to pay-off debts.

The Turkish Mafia is identified as the main importer of heroin into the UK, controlling more than 50 per cent of a market worth tens of millions of pounds per year, according to customs officers.

Asian criminal groups are their main competitors in the heroin trade with a ready-made distribution-network which, at street level, is run by by gangs originally formed to fight racism.

It is based in cities such as Leeds and Bradford, with strong links to Pakistan, where much of the heroin flooding Britain originates.

Yardie drug gangs have expanded from the inner cities and can now be found across Britain in places as diverse as Falkirk, Cornwall and Cambridge, revolutionising crime with their extreme violence.

Yardies were originally centred in London, but dispersed to other cities after a crackdown by the Metropolitan Police. They brought a massive rise in gun crime to cities such as Nottingham and Bristol, but have now been forced to spread to the countryside where police are less aware of their activities.

The TV investigation follows a series of warnings that immigrants are responsible for an ever increasing number of offences.

Last month, Cambridgeshire Chief Constable Julie Spence said migrants with "different standards" were placing a huge strain on the force's resources.

Police in London said one in five crimes is now committed by foreign nationals.

A survey for the investigation found that half the population live in fear of crime and say they feel threatened in their own neighbourhood.

The same number say they have been victims of crime and the great majority of victims were targeted by criminal on their own street.

Two-thirds said they know someone-who has been a victim of crime. Half of those surveyed said they thought rural areas were largely free of crime.

But Mr Omaar said this was not the case. He said: "We've found Yardies in Herefordshire and drug gangs in Durham - not the places I expected to see hardened criminal gangs by any stretch of the imagination - but crime in the UK is changing and making the series has shown me that its happening right underneath our noses."

The rural gangland: Foreign drug and sex rings move in on country towns | the Daily Mail

This article blows apart the myth that the recent influx of immigrants are all honest people just looking for work. I see them every day. They have somehow - I suspect violently - got rid of the homeless people who usually sell the Big Issue now stand there in their place & virtually every whore-house is packed with girls who were promised jobs as waitresses or something in their homeland, then beaten & forced into becoming a hooker when they arrive.

They aren't all bad - I'm not saying they are - but there are other, lower-level problems being caused, too. Contractors can't win contracts because they are being undercut for silly money (these twats don't pay tax, you see), old ladies are being harrassed at traffic lights by gangs of adults & kids armed with a washing up bottle, menacingly demanding money for cleaning your windscreen.

I have seen gangs of beefy men banging on a woman's window while they surround the car & not let her drive off until she has handed over some cash.

A council house is out of the question - they're all gone.

I know of a gang of East Europeans who specialise in stealing handbags from students while they enjoy a coffee in Starbucks, or wherever. These students are from the more rural parts the country & aren't prepared to deal with the level of crime aimed at them through these constant muggings, burglaries & theft. What should be a few happy years at a top university (believe it or not, Manchester is 6th) turn out to be hell for these lovely kids.

Whoever says letting this crowd into the contry was a good idea is a cock.

[ChiangMai noon]

You are seeing what you want to see.

I have never met more violent shits than the neighbours i used to have.

Pure white blood.

[stroller]

This article blows apart the myth that the recent influx of immigrants are all honest people just looking for work.

Noone ever claimed they were, there are all sorts amongst them, of course some indulge in criminal activities like pimping, trading drugs and stealing, just like the Brits do.

[Richard Littlejohn]

Some?

It's about 80% at least.

[ChiangMai noon]

It's about 80% at least.

[stroller]

You need to learn to put what you read in sensationalist rags like the Daily Mail into perspective, "Richard".

[Richard Littlejohn]

You guys have the luxury of rose-tinted telescopic vision, or something.

Not one single Romanian has the right to claim benefits or work in the UK. What do you think they are doing for money?

[ChiangMai noon]

A survey for the investigation found that half the population live in fear of crime and say they feel threatened in their own neighbourhood.

well, i wonder why?

are you really scared Dicky?
do you really live in fear?

[Richard Littlejohn]

I don't personally because I can look after myself & have a couple as friends.

The women & old people can't - I would say they make up at least half the population.

Crime in the UK used to be having your car radio pinched or house broken into. These lot have brought an unprecedented level of violent crime with them. How do you think things like heroin dealing & stuff is controlled? There are muggings & shootings every single day.

[ChiangMai noon]

The women & old people can't - I would say they make up at least half the population.

So, what's changed?
The worst of the UK kunts were the big groups of bastards that sat in the pub waiting to kick the shit into someone new and unwelcome.

I never felt safe in the UK, never.

[Richard Littlejohn]

big groups of bastards that sat in the pub waiting to kick the shit into someone

At least you knew not to go in that pub, nowadays this lot sit on the pavement outside cash machines or in parks with the same attitude.

Always in gangs, too.

[stroller]

It's just another spin Mail-style.
Mention immigrants and next that 50% of the population leave in fear - let the reader make the intended connection.

[ChiangMai noon]

^^
Just called my mum.
she says you are talking bollucks.

so there.

[Richard Littlejohn]

Where's your mum live, Wales?

She wouldn't know because even the immigrants aren't desperate enough to move there

[stroller]

It's just another spin Mail-style.

Same with the graphic, it doesn't provide statistics of which nationalities compared to British are quantitatively involved, or which proportion of immigrants - recent, long-stay or naturalised.
Of course someone is going to pull "80%" out of their hat.

[Richard Littlejohn]

I pulled the 80% from personal experience.

I don't get all my knowledge from newspapers.

[stroller]

80% makes it look like it was an established figure.
How many immigrants have you met, what's your sample group?

[Richard Littlejohn]

To say I have 'met' as in had dealings with, hundreds.

Friend wise - many Albanians, a few Indians & countless blacks.

[chinthee]

Jamaican Yardies selling crack in Hereford??

Sounds almost impossible to believe. Quiet pastoral country gentlemen and Yardies?

[stroller]

To say I have 'met' as in had dealings with, hundreds.

Friend wise - many Albanians, a few Indians & countless blacks.

Very interesting. Off-topic, but I bet you have many stories to tell!