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HUNTER: Faculty lounge judge seems to LOVE foreign-born criminals

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Federal Court Judge Sebastien Grammond seems to like foreign-born criminals a lot.

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In breathless prose as part of a heavy-duty media push to bring sympathy to those Canada wants to boot, the Toronto Star cites the big-hearted judge for staying the deportation of a Sri-Lankan man.

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Kugatheeswaran Thuraisinkam arrived in 2010, one of nearly 500 passengers on the MV Sun Sea. The Star sobs that some of the suspected terrorists on the ship “were questioned every step of the way.”

This is what the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) is supposed to do.

Officials, Judge Grammond moaned in staying Thuraisinkam’s slated April 16 deportation, have not yet assessed the risk the man would be facing upon returning to Sri Lanka.

Thuraisinkam has been here 16 years. Does not have a grasp of either English or French. Been homeless and dealt with mental illness. His wife and three kids are back in the old country. In nearly two decades here, he has brought nothing to the country.

An earlier judge asked the CBSA to research whether the wayward Tamil was at risk if deported. Here’s where Grammond, a superstar at helping convicted criminals stay in the country, stepped in.

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The judge sniffed: “It is curious, to say the least, that CBSA is attempting to remove him again when the issue highlighted by Justice (William) Pentney has not yet been resolved.”

All of sudden, there’s new evidence after what, 16 years, as to why he should stay — even after two impaired driving convictions and failing to show up for removal? So, more study, Grammond suggested.

Judge’s previous case ruling

This isn’t the former University of Ottawa academic’s first rodeo when it comes to making a faculty lounge leap of faith when it comes to convicted foreign-born criminals.

The justice also offered tea and sympathy to Yohanna David Chol. Grammond spared the 39-year-old from deportation on “humanitarian grounds.” Bad choice.

The tres violent Chol offered a full lineup of convictions. These included assault, drug trafficking, and obstructing a peace officer. He was stripped of his status as a permanent resident, and his numerous criminal convictions rendered him inadmissible to Canada.

In 2017, the Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration deemed Chol a danger to the Canadian public. Smoke ya later, the big date for Chol’s removal had been slated for Dec. 13, 2021.

But wait! Before you can say “get your ass outta here,” two days before he was to get the boot Grammond granted Chol a stay. The removal officer, Grammond wrote, failed to consider new evidence concerning his mental health. What he did not write was: ‘This man is a goddamn danger to the Canadian public and should be deported.’

“I have no difficulty finding that Mr. Chol’s removal to South Sudan would expose him to irreparable harm,” the judge wrote, heavy of heart and loaded with sanctimony.

Instead, as I wrote in December, the “irreparable harm” came to Vuyo Kashe.

Months after Grammond gave him a break, obviously believing that Chol spent his spare time eating pancakes soaked in maple syrup and watching Hockey Night in Canada, the inevitable happened.

Gutless Chol lured 36-year-old Vuyo Kashe into an Ottawa street and parked seven bullets in his back in what prosecutors described as an “execution-style” killing.

Chol was convicted of second-degree murder in 2022 and sentenced to 17 years in prison. He died in a Kingston-area prison last October.

‘Tormented by last moments’

Kashe’s mom, Victoria Wellington, spoke in her victim impact statement of his difficult birth in a refugee camp in Tanzania.

“But he survived, to be brutally murdered by a monster who has no value for human life,” Wellington said, pointing to Chol.

“I am tormented at the thoughts of his last moments.”

As for Federal Court Judge Sebastien Grammond? He’s good. He’s good.

bhunter@postmedia.com

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