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If they'd not tried to play footloose with the law in the first place, they could have saved a great deal of that money.

But ultimately, the law is the winner here, and I think that's actually quite reassuring.

I am quite proud sometimes when an obvious scumbag is protected with the full weight of the law to show everyone that we have the right to fair and just legal representation..but then i see us deport people to America who have never even set foot on American soil and the closest they've ever gotten to USA is through a .com site or a McDonalds cheeseburger.

£1.7m is a lot of money to deport one person, but in terms of terrorism it is nothing.

I don't even think the murder of Lee Rigby is even worthy of being called a terrorist attack, but I think the massive police operation straight after his death could have easily cost more than £1.7m. I hate to think how much the trial of the two scumbags will cost.

And it's not like the Govt set out to spend so much money. They had to spend that money because of the legal difficulties in shipping him out. If the govt didn't spend that money then he'd still be here.

Good riddance to him and I am eager to hear more about Cameron's proposals to remove these sorts more quickly in the future.

Due process MUST be followed.
Otherwise we are as bad as the terrorists and the terrorists have succeeded in undermining our rule of law.

Cameron wants to adjust our relationship with ECHR .... how exactly? To abide by verdicts we like and ignore those we don't?

Just as eager as we are to read your answers to direct questions, I'm sure.

Spot on. Although Mother Theresa is being feted as some sort of Joan of Arc, lets not forget the initial incompetency has a lot more to do with the final cost of this episode.

Unfortunately going "Kevin Bacon" over immigration has long been a failing of Home Secretaries, regardless of their political hue.

Brown people? People not convicted of any crime in this country? People convicted of crimes in a foreign country in absentia using evidence obtained by torture? People The Sun told you were bad? Im eager to hear more about how we define 'these sorts'.

Of course it was worth the cost. 1. Scumbag gone 2. Plenty of lawyers made plenty of money which will be spent to boost the economy 3. Much of it will have been legal aid so the spend will be re-invested as a big stick to beat the greedy legal aid lawyers with (The government's (much better paid) lawyers will all be lined up for nice gongs) 4. the case and the spend will be used as a justification for more laws curtailing the rights of future suspects.

Trebles all round in Whitehall, I'd say.

I'm also eager to hear the reasons he was granted asylum in the first place. Especially as that asylum was granted by then Home Secretary Michael Howard, advised by one David Cameron.

Any comment?

Stopping these type of people getting in is the most important thing, once they are here it seems that they are harder to get rid of than a dose of Herpes. The only winners are the lawyers (again).

And the answer from this bunch of idiots is to slash the budget of UKBA