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Gangster Lawrence Morgan was to be deported from Great Britain to Jamaica. The dangerous criminal was not expelled because the passengers of the plane he was supposed to fly on started a riot. As it turned out, the man was repeatedly convicted of drug trafficking, possession of weapons and participation in shootings.
The Daily Mail reported on the riots that took place in November. Now the British Home Office has revealed the identity of the criminal who was deported.
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As the newspaper described, 27 years old Lawrence Morgan was put on the plane at London Gatwick Airport. The man was selected for deportation because of this The Ministry of Internal Affairs found this to be extremely harmful to society. The presence of the handcuffed man attracted the attention of the passengers. Among them was Cambridge University graduate Hannah Gaff. According to media reports The woman was persuading the other passengers not to board until take off.
The rebellion worked. Finally, Lawrence Morgan was taken off the plane. He thanked passengers for their support.
Great Britain. Passengers blocked the gangster's deportation
As the newspaper Daily Mail revealed, Lawrence Morga He came to the UK a few years ago, using a tourist visa. In 2021, he was convicted of his involvement in a shooting that took place a year earlier in Birmingham. The rival gangsters fired at least 13 shots into the busy street, killing one person. No one killed Lawrence Morgan then, but his accomplice, 22-year-old Nasir Francis, was killed in the shooting. The judge announced this later in the session “Only by luck” no observers were killed.
Lawrence Morgan was believed to be a member of the Johnson Crew gang, which rivaled the Burger Bar Boys for influence. At its most heated, a war between two gangs terrorized Birmingham in the early 21st century.
finally The 2021 verdict was not the first in Morgan's career. In 2016, he received Five years for carrying weapons and drugs – heroin, crack and cocaine. Received in 2017 Two more years for drug traffickingBut In 2020, the man was already free.
Home Secretary James Clearley has commented on the issue of blocking deportations, stressing that “the vast majority of British people want convicted, brutal thugs deported”. “We need to be able to get criminals out of our country without the interference of the world's misguided and uninformed fixers,” he added, referring to the plane's passengers.
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