UK Prison Service Reveals 125 Foreign Nationals Serving Life Were Sent Back to Home Countries

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An undated image of Justice Secretary Dominic Raab with a prison officer at the opening of category C prison HMP Five Wells in Wellingborough, England. Joe Giddens/PA

One in four foreign nationals who were given life sentences in England and Wales between 2011 and 2019 were sent back to serve their sentences in their home countries.

The Prison Service has revealed, following a Freedom of Information Act request from The Epoch Times (pdf), that 435 foreign nationals were given life sentences between 2011 and 2019, all but seven of which were for murder.