Foreign conviction information not shared on arrest
Home Office received 2 coroners' reports about this hazard between 23 Oct 2014 and 12 Jul 2016.
They came from 2 different coroners in 2 coroner areas. A similar concern was raised again 1 time after the first warning.
No published response from Home Office was found for the earlier reports.
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“it seems that there are further opportunities that might be considered which would reduce the likelihood of another individual (with a murder conviction like entering the UK without conditions and without any police force being made aware of that person's existence, until arrested for different offence.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ No published response from Home Office was found for this report.
- 1 year 9 months laterClosely relatedConfidence 0.80 · moderatea different coroner
“(1) That checks for foreign convictions on arrest are not mandatory in all police forces across the UK.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Home Office responded.Response (PDF) ↗
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2014 → 2016Alice Gross1 year 9 months after Maria Stubbings · different coronerClosely relatedConfidence 0.80 · moderate
Closely relatedConfidence 0.80 · moderateBoth reports highlight that information about foreign convictions is not reliably available to UK authorities when individuals enter the country or are arrested. This gap creates a risk that people with serious overseas convictions may go undetected.
Maria Stubbings · 23 Oct 2014
“it seems that there are further opportunities that might be considered which would reduce the likelihood of another individual (with a murder conviction like entering the UK without conditions and without any police force being made aware of that person's existence, until arrested for different offence.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Alice Gross · 12 Jul 2016
“(1) That checks for foreign convictions on arrest are not mandatory in all police forces across the UK.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗
No published response from Home Office was found for this report.
No specific action could be extracted with a verified quote.
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- Concerns from reports to Home Office at least six months apart were compared by meaning (Qwen3 embeddings) and wording (TF-IDF).
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| Link | Meaning | Wording | Judge | Coroner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 → 2016 | 0.64 | 0.31 | Closely related · 0.80 | different |
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