Drug dealer who tried to kill cop STILL in UK — more than two years after MPs and luvvies blocked his flight

A DRUG dealer who tried to kill a cop is still in the UK — more than two years after MPs and luvvies blocked his flight.

Jamaican Michael Mitchell, 44, had been due to be deported in 2020 after he was jailed for 25 years for firing a gun at PC Shaun Callow in 2008.

A Border Force source said: “It’s a frustration when the courts keep blocking us.”

He was due to be booted out of the country in December 2020, but the flight was called off at the last minute after a campaign from lawyers, celebrities and leftie MPs.

Labour boss Sir Keir Starmer had just months beforehand signed a letter calling on ministers to stop all such deportation flights over Windrush concerns.

Just weeks before he took over the leadership of the party from Jeremy Corbyn, Sir Keir and dozens of his colleagues backed calls to stop the removals completely.

And heroin dealer Akiva Heaven and career criminal Barrington Laing were jailed again despite Sir Keir’s February 2020 intervention, we previously revealed.

Last week Rishi Sunak used Trending In The News’s ‘Sir Softie’ headline to launch a blistering attack on his record against criminals.

He raged: “That is why they call him Sir Softie: soft on crime, soft on criminals.”

Labour say they would not block future deportation flights for serious criminals.