The Prison Service has been criticised for refusing to confirm if two brothers who were jailed for their part in the horrific killing of a woman as she cradled a baby have been released or deported.
In August 2005 Zainab Kalokoh was shot dead as she held her little
niece, Adama, during a bungled robbery at a christening party in Peckham, south
London, in a crime which shocked the country. The gunman, Roberto Malasi, was jailed for life for murder.
But Diamond Babamuboni, 17, and his brother, Timy, 15, received
lesser sentences, partly because they were convicted as juveniles, despite
doubts about their true ages.
Rory Geoghegan, from the
Centre for Public Safety think-tank, said: 'Justice must be seen to be
done. The public have a right to know whether violent criminals who have
been recommended for deportation at the end of their sentence have been
deported.'The public have had enough of the human rights of violent thugs and
other criminals routinely trumping those of the innocent and the public at
large.'
The Babamuboni brothers were both convicted of manslaughter and given
indeterminate sentences, with minimum tariffs of eight years each.
Timy claimed to have been born on either 23 March 1991 or 23 August 1991
while his brother claimed to have been born on 27 March 1989.
But because both were born in Nigeria and their birth certificates were
thought to be forgeries it was impossible to ascertain how old they were and
both refused to undergo dental tests which would have given their true age.
Their birth certificates were written in the same handwriting and had
consecutive numbers, despite them having been born two years apart.
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