An £8million plan to remove 200 of Albania’s most dangerous criminals from British prisons has seen just 13 sent home in three years.
The scheme known as a prisoner transfer agreement was signed with Albania in 2023 to help reduce the prison population and ease the cost of housing foreign prisoners on the taxpayer.
Albanians are the largest foreign nationality in our prisons with roughly 1,000 locked up, which is 10 per cent of the non-British prison population.
Murderers like Koci Selamaj who received a life sentence for killing the teacher Sabina Nessa in London in 2021, can serve their sentences in their
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