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led to the UK to dodge justice is

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Champion cage ighter Adrian Preda was jailed for attempted murder in 2016 
He led Romania as the convictions were upheld before giving himself up in UK 
Judge Robin McPhee, at Westminster Magistrates, told Preda: ‘You're free to go’ 

By DAVID CHURCHILL FOR THE DAILY MAIL

PUBLISHED: 21:59, 6 April 2018 | UPDATED: 15:53, 7 April 2018

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A Romanian gangster is free to walk the streets of Britain because ‘overcrowded’ jails
in his homeland might breach his human rights.

Convicted mobster Adrian Preda, 36, was sentenced to nine and a half years in
prison in Romania for attempted murder, blackmail and organised crime.

But the champion cage ighter went on the run by skipping bail and sneaking into
Britain. Now a judge here has ruled against extraditing him back home – inRead
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overcrowded Romanian jails breach his right to avoid ‘degrading’ treatment.

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District judge Robin McPhee, sitting at Westminster Magistrates’ Court, told Preda:
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streets. Semi-open jails also give inmates company' as she cares

In February 2016, Preda and 28 fellow
mobsters were convicted in a court in
Bucharest. Preda was found guilty of
attempting to murder rival gangsters at a
shopping centre when he and his cronies
attacked them with knives and swords.
In addition, he was found guilty of
threatening to order the murder of a man
to whom he had given a high-interest
loan, as well as ights related to a turf war
with a rival gang called the Cats.
for newborn daughter
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outside their cells. They have to return
to their rooms only for meals and roll
call.
Last year the European Court of
Human Rights took Romania to task for
its dismal prison conditions, saying
they could be considered inhumane
and degrading.

His gang was jailed for a combined 220

years, although Preda’s sentence was reduced to ive years and six months in
December 2016 at the Romanian Supreme Court.

Inexplicably, he had been granted bail during an earlier hearing, and apparently no
one had thought to rescind it – so Preda promptly led the country.

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The gangster has since been living in a semi-detached £367,000 home with his Helen Flanagan
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partner in a neat cul-de-sac in Northolt, North-west London. On January 9 this year, bump in one shoulder
he handed himself in and was arrested by the Metropolitan Police under a European jumpsuit as she leaves
hotel for dinner with
Arrest Warrant (EAW). He was given an electronic tag and curfew while awaiting an friends
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On Tuesday, the court was told that Bradbury, 47, shows off
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Ruling in Preda’s favour, Judge McPhee the cost of parking for his court GIRL with fiancé Offset
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received no assurances Preda’s human £14 to leave his £60,000 BMW on each
rights would not be breached. The judge of the four occasions he was ordered
told him: ‘This is a case in which I am to appear before Westminster
clear I would need an assurance, to magistrates in central London – a total
satisfy me that there would be no breach of £56. 'This girl is an
ungrateful brat!' Kendall
of his Article 3 rights. Therefore, I am His lawyer, Benjamin Seifert, asked for Jenner is blasted for
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Outside court, Preda’s lawyer, Benjamin District judge Robin McPhee granted her first ever Met Gala
Seifert, was heard telling his client, who the request, meaning the taxpayer will
Jordan Banjo
also received legal aid: ‘You are very have to foot the bill. welcomes his first child:
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lucky.’ Defendants who are found not guilty or announces the arrival of
son Cassius with
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As an EU citizen living in Britain, there is some of their expenses and costs.
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claiming bene its. Iskra Lawrence reveals
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