All the allegations follow the continuing fall-out from the revelation that more than 1, 000 foreign prisoners were released at the end of their sentence without being considered for deportation.

BBC: The Home Office says absconders can be criminally charged

Home Secretary Theresa May used newly-introduced powers which allow foreign prisoners who have served the minimum part of their sentence to be deported if they have no right to remain in the country.

BBC: Anger at wife killer Hassan Shatanawi deportation

Martin Horwood, a member of Parliament representing Sandiford's Cheltenham constituency in western England, called the sentence a shock and said he would raise the case with Foreign Secretary William Hague.

NPR: Indonesia Sentences UK Woman To Death Over Drugs

If that last sentence does not strike a small measure of fear into the hearts of foreign financial institutions, I would be surprised.

FORBES: Where China Goes, Banks Will Follow

Foreign Secretary Jack Straw is understood to have written to Governor Perry asking for Elliott's sentence to be commuted to life.

BBC: Time running out for death row Briton

On June 15th, Britain, Sierra Leone's former colonial power and still its main source of foreign aid, agreed to let the former Liberian president, if convicted, serve his prison sentence in the United Kingdom, thereby removing the main obstacle blocking his transfer and trial.

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