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Below you will find the full quotes from Charlie Elphicke MP, Antony Hook (local Lib Dem Chairman) and Sue Jones (leader of Labour group on Dover Town Council) from messages sent by email to me (except for the first account of Hook's views, from a phone conversation reported by me and approved by him as accurate) regarding the issue of the release of foreign criminals from Dover Removal Centre.
The differing views formed the contents of a special edition of the latest DCR local news roundup first aired tonight between 7.25 and 7.30pm. Any spelling mistakes and typos in the email messages have not been altered.
Firstly, Elphicke's request in Parliament: 'I have seen people in the Dover removal centre who have been there for three years, being held in stasis after having served their sentence. May I urge the Minister to take all measures possible to get such people out of the system as quickly as possible? It seems basically unfair that they should be incarcerated when they have served their sentence.'
Green's reply:' I take my hon. Friend's point, and he is assiduous in his work on the conditions at the removal centre in his constituency. I can assure him that this Government—like the previous Government, to be fair—will keep people in detention after their prison sentence has finished only if they are thought to pose a danger to the wider community. I am sure he will appreciate that if such people cannot be deported immediately for the reasons that we have been discussing, but they pose a danger to the British public, the best place for them is in immigration detention.'
Hook's initial observations to me, given on the phone, subsequently written-up by me and approved by him as accurate (apologies for caps, used because this was part of a radio script):
THE CHAIRMAN OF THE DOVER, DEAL AND DISTRICT LIBERAL DEMOCRAT PARTY,
ANTONY HOOK, SPEAKING TO DCR NEWS, HAS DECLARED HIMSELF TO BE 'SHOCKED AND
SURPRISED' AT MP CHARLIE ELPHICKE'S CALL FOR FOREIGN CRIMINALS HELD AT
DOVER REMOVAL CENTRE TO BE RELEASED WHEN THEY HAVE SERVED THEIR SENTENCE,
DESPITE THEM BEING CLASSED BY THE GOVERNMENT AS POSING A DANGER TO THE
BRITISH PUBLIC. MR HOOK SAID THAT ELPHICKE'S VIEW WOULD CONFLICT WITH THOSE