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WATCH: Peter Bleksley warns that Britain is becoming 'increasingly more dangerous'
Oct 24, 2025
Peter Bleksley has launched a scathing attack on the Labour Government following the accidental release of Epping hotel migrant Hadush Kebatu.Speaking to GB News, the former Scotland Yard Detective declared the incident "appalling" and an "utter disgrace".FULL STORY HERE.
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Peter, I'm feeling an episode of Keystone Cops coming here
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Well, this is what you get when you've got David Lammy as a justice minister
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Shabana Mahmood as a Home Secretary and a Labour government. It's quite frankly appalling
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All those people now who went to the streets of Epping to protest
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surely, have been entirely vindicated. And there will be further protests now because an ineffective criminal justice system
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has just released a dangerous sex offender back onto the streets where he should be behind bars
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It's an utter disgrace. Well, of course, I guess it's not really Labour's fault in this respect
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And David Lammy is said to be furious about what has happened. So they weren't directly the people
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who would have stopped this person from escaping. But it's just the mess of it all
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How would somebody... How would that happen? I just don't get it. Well, probably administrative errors, but you've got to remember
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and I'm going to challenge you now on whether the Labour government have some responsibility for this
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It was Shabana Mahmood's Justice Secretary that started the early release of prisoners
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It's her that's pushing the bill forward, which is going to release more prisoners early
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And what I suspect happened was this prisoner, who should not have been released
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was probably swept up among a batch of prisoners who were being early released That would be my best guess So yes responsibility does lay with the politicians It them who are letting prisoners out early
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to free up prison space because the system is overcrowded and not fit for purpose
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And the whole criminal justice system is in an absolute mess, from policing at the front line to the CPS
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to the courts, to the prisons, all the way through to probation. and this is a perfect example today of how Britain is becoming increasingly more dangerous
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I mean, I think when she said early release, she didn't mean that early. I just, and also we need some of the blame of this if we are going to blame people
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It has to fall on the fact that the previous government didn't build more prison space
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or do anything really and left it in a very critical position
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But still, there was space for him, and this is purely some sort of administrative error
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caused by people just not really paying attention. This makes Britain look like a laughingstock, doesn't it
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Regretfully, this once great nation is a laughingstock in so many regards
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Dinges pulling up in their hordes, thousands of people illegally flooding into this country
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The crime on the streets of Britain increasing every year, becoming more lawless, more dangerous
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And we just I afraid this nation is a laughingstock already And I got friends who live over the pond in America and won they just shake their heads when I talk to them about what happening in the UK
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And what message does it send to other migrants, of course? Because if they are arrested
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they know they could potentially abscond in such an easy manner. I mean, he's on the loose now as we speak
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The message being sent to migrants is come to the UK. You'll get in. You'll get a free hotel
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You'll get free clothing. You'll get free food. In all likelihood, you'll be allowed to stay and then you'll get benefits
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And then you can break the law if you want, because so many of them go on to enter the illegal tobacco industry, for example, and other forms of criminality
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We've got open border policy, open doors, and it's a shambles. That's exactly the word that just before you said it, Peter, I knew you were heading there
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And I also think it's quite embarrassing, really, because it goes to show that nothing is up to scratch in this country
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Because would it have been police officers that would have made the mistake or would it have been prison guards that have made the mistake
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Who would have made this actual physical mistake? It's an administrative error, I would suspect, within the prison system
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Whatever prison he was being held or perhaps a message that was handed down
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But either way, it's just an embarrassment. It's a joke. I used to be so proud to be part of the criminal justice system
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of this wonderful nation and now it just an embarrassment to live here let alone anything else And we pay such high taxes as well And this is one of many different things that are happening
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I mean, we've had a migrant who has killed somebody with a screwdriver
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who is about to be sentenced, has found guilty today. It's not that all migrants, you know, illegal migrants are bad
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It's just that we don't know who they are when they enter this country
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and then we allow them to roam free. And I think that, to me, apart from the fact they've come here easily, illegally, via a small dinghy
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now those ones that are here, does there need to be some sort of change as to how they're treated when they get here
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rather than them being allowed to roam free? Because that's why these things are happening. They need to be stopped from coming here
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And if only we had a government with a spine that would ignore international convention
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and do what they need to do to keep this country safe
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So many of these migrants are entering into criminality, whether that be organised crime, sexual crime, whatever it may be
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We are important people in this country who we don't know where they've come from
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we don't know their background, we don't know their intentions. It's utter lunacy
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I don't know where anyone anywhere would allow somebody into their own home, not knowing who the hell they are
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and say, hey, stay, stay, have a meal, stay in my house, just sleep in the bed upstairs
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Peter Blexley, thank you very much. Really good to talk to you. He's a former Scotland Yard detective
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