Martin Daubney has been left fuming after a fiery row over human rights broke out live on air.
The GB News presenter dubbed the British legal system “utterly unfit for purpose”, after a small boat migrant was found guilty of threatening to kill Reform UK leader Nigel Farage.
Human rights lawyer Shoaib Khan locked horns with Martin over the state of the legal system after it was revealed that authorities are unable to deport the Afghan migrant.
The presenter and guest clashed over whether the legal system is fit to function, with Martin insisting otherwise.
The pair butted heads over whether the British legal system is ‘fit for purpose’
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“We have now learned of ten previous offences – violent offences, knife crime, sex crime, child sex crimes – came to Britain illegally, made death threats against a political party leader. We don’t know if he’ll go to prison,” Martin fumed.
“We do know if he does go to prison, then on his on his release, we won’t be able to deport him because he’s an Afghan national.”
He described the case as the “very essence” of why people are led to believe that the British legal system is “utterly, utterly unfit for purpose”.
However, the human rights lawyer retorted that the case of Afghan small boat migrant, Fayaz Khan, who was found guilty of threatening to kill Nigel Farage today, proves that the current system works.
“Even when he was arriving, if he was saying he should, you know, not be allowed to land somehow or he should be sent back, but it just shows that our system works and it does protect us.
“And obviously in the UK we’re lucky in a way that obviously I’ve made these threats before he even landed. So we knew what he intended to, what we thought he might do.
“And so we arrested him immediately. And now he’s been convicted.”
The lawyer added that “hopefully” the man will be sentenced and “pay for all the crimes he’s committed”.
He said that “as long as the law applies equally to everyone”, accompanied with respect towards to courts and the system, that the judicial system does work.
Hitting back, Martin asked: “You know, the vast majority of people in this country think people like this should be deported. Why should we support them in our jails if he gets a non-custodial sentence, which is a possibility?
“Why should the British taxpayer pick up for the bill with someone with a litany of criminal offences against their name, wanted by police in Sweden, wanted by police in France?”
He also pointed out that the European Court of Human Rights is “protecting people like him and not protecting people like Nigel Farage and not protecting the British public”.
The discussion quickly escalated, with Mr Khan saying that protecting the migrant was “very, very basic human rights”, with Martin interjecting that he was a “serial criminal”.
“But everyone has human rights and that’s the whole point,” Mr Khan said. “But what I don’t agree with is when you say it doesn’t protect us.”
“How is Nigel Farage’s human rights being breached in this country really?”
“I’m saying that and I’m saying the human rights of every British citizen is being breached. If this guy becomes a liability for the British taxpayer, and if he ends up walking free, he will be living in Britain, he’ll be unable to work, he’ll be on the taxpayer dime.
“And I’m saying that offends and violates the human rights of every single British taxpayer,” he added.
Fayaz Khan was found guilty at Southwark Crown Court today
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PA“So I’m not sure what more you want,” the lawyer responded.
“Like you said, no, it’s not only the ECHR that stops him being deported if he does claim asylum or if he can’t prove his life is in danger in Afghanistan, then there’s lots of international law, basically the refugee convention, so many others that say we can’t send him back.”
Martin hit back, explaining that the it was revealed today that Taliban officials were selling fake death threats to Afghan nationals for £40 to “game the system and trick their way into British asylum”.
“Everything is rigged against the British public. And and I’m afraid to say it, the legislation is unfit for purpose because it’s not protecting our citizens,” Martin fumed. “And it certainly isn’t protecting Nigel Farage if this guy is ever released.”
