Gangster finally deported after ‘ill-informed’ passengers on BA flight wrecked first attempt
A GANGSTER has finally been deported after “ill- informed do-gooders” wrecked the first attempt.
Home Office guards tried to return Lawrence Morgan on a BA flight in November.
But other passengers revolted at Gatwick, with Morgan reportedly thanking them as he was led away.
The Jamaican, 27, is understood to have then mounted a bid to remain, saying he’d left the island as a kid and didn’t know anyone there.
But he was deported on a commercial flight on February 25 and handed over to the Jamaican authorities.
Morgan arrived here in the 2000s and was jailed following a gang shootout on Birmingham’s streets.
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Insiders say the passenger mutiny only stiffened government resolve to kick him out.
A source close to Home Secretary James Cleverly said: “In most cases foreign national offenders are deported with little or no disruption.
"The intervention of some ill-informed do-gooders stopped the deportation of an individual who among other crimes was involved in a gun battle on the streets of the UK.
"This did not stop our determination to deport him.”