Your Excellency, I believe you are aware of Bahrain media reports about the terrorist co-ordinator jailed for child sex abuse in the UK.
This man Qassim Hashim was blindly given political asylum by the British Home Office without a thorough investigation of his past.
It is another example of a terrorist misleading British officials to infiltrate your country under the guise of human rights.
Sadly, only time has exposed to the UK’s decision makers that your asylum bureaucracy must be reformed before Britain becomes a haven for criminals.
Conservative MP Bob Stewart has already stated this issue must be discussed with the Home Secretary, as well as the Foreign Office.
Mr Ambassador, this is not the first such case. Fellow criminal Abdulraouf Al Shayeb was only recently jailed for five years in the UK for his subversive activities.
Since 2011 and even before that Bahrain has tried to explain to your predecessors, as well as the Foreign Office, that Britain should not shelter such criminals.
Regrettably, it seems nobody listened or cared to fathom the depths of how serious and dangerous this matter is.
Bear in mind that there are many others in the UK who, until now, have not had their pasts or their links to Iran scrutinised.
Many of them hold Iranian passports, in addition to Bahraini and British citizenships. Their regular visits to Iran are almost a monthly or quarterly routine.
Among them is chief conspirator Saeed Shehabi, who is at large in the UK despite being sentenced to 14 years in jail in Bahrain along with Qassim Hashim and Abdulraouf Al Shayeb for orchestrating the activities of the Coalition of February 14 terrorist group.
It is five years since the Evening Standard newspaper reported that Shehabi worked for 13 years in London offices owned by the Iranian government.
His Abrar Institute, of which he is a director, occupies the entire top floor of a building and requires thousands of pounds a month for rent alone.
Strangely, it seems nothing has been done to question him about his source of finances.
Sheltering such people is one of the prime reasons the British public became so fed up with the UK’s immigration policies that they voted to leave the EU.
They took this negative step because they felt being a part of the EU bound Britain to procedures dictated by Brussels, which determined who should be allowed into the country.
Now that Britain is no longer part of the EU we hope that, in its own interests, the UK reviews policies that have allowed such individuals to practice their evil deeds freely and without restriction – including harming innocent children.
Mr Ambassador, while we cannot criticise British justice and the 12-year jail sentence handed down to Qassim Hashim, the chances are he will be eligible for parole within seven
years depending
on his conduct in prison.
That means this sick sexual predator and paedophile will once again be free to operate in society – posing a risk to yet more innocent children.
The only comfort we can take is that he is not serving his jail term in Bahrain, where the amenities provided in our prisons mean they are more akin to a one-star hotel.
Instead, he will spend his sentence at the UK’s notorious Wormwood Scrubs prison, which Britain’s Prison Reform Trust just four months ago described as rat-infested and overcrowded with “levels of Dickensian squalor”.
That is the least he deserves.
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