Long-suffering British taxpayers will be forced to pay another £1 million to Nigeria to allow that country to build a jail there – for prisoners who have committed crimes in Britain.

The astonishing announcement was made by Lin Homer, UK Border agency head, who said the move was to allow at least 400 Nigerian criminals currently in British prisons to be deported.

Apparently the Nigerian government is too hopeless and backward to build prisons which fit the ‘human rights’ criteria of Nigerian criminals in Britain, and thus, courts have ruled, these foreign criminals cannot be deported.

By building a prison in Nigeria which meets the Human Rights Act standard, the UKBA hopes it will become possible to deport these foreign criminal parasites.

What this means in practice is that British people, after being subjected to a criminal tidal wave from Nigeria will now have insult added to injury and be forced to pay for the construction of a jail which will allow these same criminals some measure of comfort in their Third World hellhole-origin countries.

Ms Homer said the foreign prisoners cost the UK taxpayers £30,000 each per year to keep in British jails. Calculated at the minimum of 400 prisoners – the size of the jail which is being proposed – this means that this relatively small number of Nigerian criminals already costs the British taxpayer in excess of £1.2 million per year.

* Official Home Office figures released in September last year show that foreign prisoners now make up almost one in six of Britain’s jail population and are costing the taxpayer almost £400 million a year to keep.

* Ms Homer also said that three years on from the mistaken release of 1,000 foreign criminals from British prisons without them even being considered for deportation, almost two-thirds are still in the UK. At least 87 of the 1,000 convicts – who included killers and sex attackers – have yet to be found. Of those who have been located, only 348 have been deported or removed. The remainder have been told they can stay because removal back to their homeland would be a ‘breach of human rights law’.

* It would have been better if these foreign criminals were not allowed into Britain in the first place, as Mr Nick Griffin MEP suggested.