With increasing frequency, the horrendous consequences of letting massive numbers of people into the country without vetting them are playing out in the courts. This time, an 18-year-old girl was the victim – raped, sexually assaulted and falsely imprisoned by a degenerate from Guyana.
From the Irish Examiner:
A convicted rapist who had only been in Ireland for a few days before he raped, sexually assaulted and falsely imprisoned a young woman has been jailed for 10 years.
Randi Gladstone (41), formally from Guyana, was found guilty by a Central Criminal Court jury earlier this year of one count of rape, three counts of sexual assault and one count of false imprisonment in a holiday complex in Co Dublin, on August 25th, 2023.
Gladstone has 19 previous convictions from the UK, which include convictions for rape, kidnapping, robbery and false imprisonment. Gladstone has been in custody since August 2023.
One of his previous convictions in the UK was when he and two others kidnapped, robbed, and gang-raped a terrified 25-year old woman in Isleworth in 2001. When Gladstone was imprisoned for that crime, a detective with Ealing police said: “I am delighted that these three have been taken out of circulation and will remain on the sex offenders’ register for life”.
The honest policeman likely didn’t realise how easy it would be to simply hop over to Ireland where the crippling fear of being called racist means we welcome everyone – even those without passports, even it seems those who have a string of criminal convictions for vile crimes – with open arms. We are a laughing stock.
Shortly after arriving here, Gladstone approached his Irish victim at a holiday complex in Co Dublin on 25 August 2023. As Judge Patrick McGrath said, he deliberately took advantage of this 18-year-old’s “young age, vulnerability and inexperience.” He added that Gladstone’s actions “clearly showed cunning and planning”.
Why aren’t we outraged by the fact that the authorities have been criminally negligent about who they have let into this jurisdiction? This isn’t an isolated incident by the way. There have now been multiple cases before the courts where violent men, newly arrived to the country, attack women, or commit serious crimes or harm Irish people.
Yet, the authorities keep insisting that those who come here are vetted, when clearly they are not.
When Gladstone realised his victim and her family had gone to the hospital, he got nervous and he left the holiday camp and bought a ferry ticket to the UK. But “he was unable to board the ferry as he was barred from entering the UK, and was refunded the cost of the ticket”.
It’s almost unbelievable. A man from Guyana with 19 convictions for rape, kidnapping, robbery and fake imprisonment is rightly barred from the UK but he can sashay into this country without a bother, and then proceed to rape a vulnerable 18-year-old. It’s sickening.
This case, and many others like it, belie the claim that migrants are vetted when they arrive into this country. If this repulsive individual with his lengthy criminal record, which showed, amongst other things, his propensity for violence towards women, was “vetted” and got through, then we are in real trouble indeed.
The truth is, as I have written repeatedly on this platform – and will continue to do so until change happens – is that it is simply false to claim, as so many have done, that migrants are vetted when they enter this country to claim asylum or otherwise.
In fact, it has been utterly reprehensible to see the level of dishonesty at play here: politicians and NGOs and other establishment spokespersons insisting that because migrant are fingerprinted they are vetted, when they must know that it has been established that this fingerprinting is not used to check for criminal records.
Again, these are the facts:
Fingerprints from asylum applicants are checked against two databases, but neither is a criminal database. They are checked against Eurodac, but that’s just “an EU database that stores the fingerprints of international protection applicants or people who have crossed a border illegally”.
The Department of Justice is clear on this matter, confirming in its response to Deputy Nolan that “EURODAC is not a criminal records database”.
“However”, the Department adds, “the underpinning regulations permit law enforcement agencies to compare fingerprints linked to criminal investigations with those contained on EURODAC in certain circumstances involving serious criminal offences”. That would only happen as a “last resort” as per Eurodac.
Our analysis of Eurodac records, from 2015 until May 2023, shows that there have been zero instances in which the Irish authorities have used the Eurodac database “for the purpose of comparing fingerprint data sets in order to prevent, detect or investigate terrorist offences or other serious criminal offences”.
Not a single one.
As Gary Kavanagh wrote this week, when Gript looked at the available records, going back about a decade, it turned out that AGS had never, not a single time, made a criminal or terrorist check against the database. It was only ever used to see if someone had already made an application in another European country.
Those are the facts of the matter, but to raise these issues in recent times is to run the risk of bring branded racist or far-right or whatever other lame, spiteful calumny the intolerant liberal left has come up with to silence anyone who questions the harm their insane policies have caused, sometimes to the most vulnerable people in the country.
The data shows that almost 22,000 people have arrived at Dublin Airport between 2018-2024 without necessary documentation or with false documents. Many others are wandering down from the north having left Britain with that purpose.
The doors are being left wide open and anyone – including murderers and rapists – can walk in. And women especially are paying a heavy price for this madness: like the woman who was attacked by Seif Waleed Al Hindawi, in the country just five days before he launched his violent assault on a woman walking home – or Sami Skhiri who arrived in Ireland only days before he attacked a woman who had approached when she noticed him on her property, slashing her face and hand.
There are many, many more examples, and yes, I know that we have plenty of our own home-grown scumbags. The question is why we are importing so many more, with no regard to the safety of our most vulnerable people. As John McGuirk noted this week: “the Irish Government refuses to collate criminal data – especially that pertaining to sex crimes – that categorises offenders by nationality or migrant heritage. The only thing that we can do in Ireland, if we want to get some idea of what the figures might be, is to look at the trends of our nearest geographical neighbour.”
Those trends are shocking and alarming: 23 per cent of the total number of sexual offences, including rape, in the UK were committed by foreign nationals between 2021 and 2023 – despite census data showing foreign nationals make up just 9.3 per cent of the population.”
What’s the percentage here? The government won’t tell us. We should be storming the Dáil, but instead our taxes are funding NGOs and astroturf outfits to bleat that what we need is an “Ireland for All”.
Does the ‘All’ include Sami Skhiri and Seif Waleed Al Hindawi and Randi Gladstone? Maybe they just need to be understood and rehabilitated – as long as that happens in some already disadvantaged area of Dublin or some over-stretched rural area and not in the leafy suburbs where our policymakers and commentariat safely live in gated communities whilst they shake their heads at the ‘scumbags’ in Newtownmountkennedy or Coolock or East Wall protesting the radical, uncontrolled changes to our country.
Arguing against the 10-year sentence, counsel for Gladstone said that because his client is a foreign national, serving time in an Irish prison would be difficult. Deport him back to Guyana so. He should never have been allowed in to this country in the first place.
In the victim statement read to the court on her behalf by the 18-year old’s brother, she described the “profound effects this crime has had on my life, my family and my future”.
“I would get so angry about every little thing. I wanted the pain I felt to be felt,” she said.
“I hurt myself with a lighter for a while, but I still hurt inside. That was when I thought about not being alive anymore”.
That’s heartbreaking. How many more women and girls are going to be harmed before the authorities place the welfare of our own citizens above their pathetic need to be the easiest country in the world to access if you are a criminal or violent lunatic?