Brendan O’Neill Brendan O’Neill

The horror of Britain’s broken borders

Radiet Meles, pictured, will be sentenced in November for the attack (Credit: Gwent Police)

The British state is facilitating the rape of British women. There is no other way to put it now. Consider the case of Radiet Meles, the Eritrean illegal immigrant who has carried out two vicious sexual assaults since arriving here on the back of a lorry in 2015. It was the state’s failure to deport him, or even to monitor him, that gave him free rein to inflict such misogynistic sadism on the women of Britain. It’s that simple.

It was the state’s failure to deport him, or even to monitor him, that gave him free rein to inflict such misogynistic sadism on the women of Britain

Out of all the crimes committed by foreign men the state should have deported – and there are many – Meles’ are among the sickest and most galling. Time and again, this intruder into our lands slipped through the fingers of officialdom. On at least two occasions, the state could have removed this monster from Britain. But it failed, and women paid a savage price for that failure.

Meles is 35. He’s an ex-soldier from Eritrea. After sneaking into Britain through the Channel Tunnel in 2015, he was detained for just two days before being inexplicably spirited into the community. He was transported to Newport in South Wales, where he worked at a car wash. It was there, in 2019, that he committed his first crime – actually his second, if we count his illicit breach of our borders. He carried out an attempted rape on an unconscious woman at a house party.

He was sentenced to five years for that heinous assault on a passed-out innocent. Following his conviction, the judge told him it was ‘likely’ he’d be deported upon release. It will shock no one – and sicken everyone – that this didn’t happen. Instead he was allowed back into Newport. And, once again, he preyed on women. In March this year, he inflicted rape and assault by beating on another Newport woman. He was found guilty last week and will be sentenced in November.

Here’s the cruellest part of this most tawdry story: not only was Meles not deported following his release – he wasn’t even being monitored when he arrived back in Newport. How is this possible? How can it be that a man can break into our country and sexually assault one of our citizens and then be set free to do the same again? What the hell does an illegal immigrant have to do to get booted out of Britain?

Who will answer for Meles’ reign of sexist terror in Newport? He will, of course – let’s hope his sentence is harsh. But that’s not enough. Questions still swirl. Why wasn’t he deported after arriving here illegally? Why wasn’t he deported following his depraved preying on an unconscious woman? Why wasn’t he even monitored when he was insanely set free? Who made these calls? 

There was a time, long ago, when heads would have rolled over such atrocious state failures. We would have demanded to know who took the decision to let Meles into the country. We would have followed the paper trail to its very end to discover why he wasn’t deported after his first brutish crime. The nation would have screamed for answers as to why a soldier from Eritrea was given the liberty to brutalise British women.

Yet now the nation shrugs. Every week there are media reports of another monstrous sexual assault carried out by a man who has no right to be here, and it’s chip wrapping within days. Hours, in fact. It’s the ‘new normal’, apparently, for Britain’s women and girls to be stalked and assaulted by unvetted men from distant, regressive lands. Worry about it and you’re racist.

It’s the silence of ‘the virtuous’ that is most striking. The same people who for years cried ‘rape culture’ over such daft, harmless things as lads’ mags and building-site wolf-whistling seemingly have nothing to say about these weekly savagings of British women. There are feminists who lost more sleep over Page 3 than they have over the Eritrean soldier who was given carte blanche to batter and rape two women in Wales.

The do-gooding sections of society have become unwitting aiders and abetters of sexual terror. From the well-fed liberal lawyers who give migrants tips on how to beat the system to those bourgeois leftists who wail ‘Fascist!’ at working-class mums who protest at migrant hotels, they help to bring brutish men into the country and then shame any Brit who complains about it. They have sacrificed the safety of British women at the altar of their own fake virtue.

The Radiet Meles case speaks to the horrors that can flow from broken borders. It is the first duty of the state to defend its territory and its people. The British state’s shameless abdication of that duty has made a mockery of our sovereignty and has recklessly endangered our women. How long before one of the women targeted by an illegal immigrant takes action against the government itself? I’d support that.

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