A sex offender who was detained for almost 14 hours due to his criminal record at London's Heathrow Airport is now suing airport officials. From United Press International:
Prashant Modi, the son of a millionaire oil tycoon, is suing the British Border Agency for "trauma" related to his nearly 14-hour detention at Heathrow Airport, The Daily Mail reported Thursday.
Modi said his business and personal interests were damaged when he was detained for 13 hours and 45 minutes upon his arrival in Britain. He eventually decided to go home rather than continue to wait for clearance to enter the country.
Modi was sentenced to a six-month suspended jail sentence and ordered to write a letter of apology to his 22-year-old victim after he admitted to sexually assaulting her in his London hotel room in August 2006. He said he has traveled to Britain nine times since his conviction but the incident was the first time he was detained.
Whatever happened to persona non grata? I would think that, for better or worse, the current obsession with excluding sex offenders from -- well, from everything -- would have extended to PNG by now.
Posted by: KipEsquire | November 11, 2008 at 07:35 AM