HAVING read the article (Daily Echo, July 13) regarding a drug grower to be deported, I wondered if anyone could tell me why we have to keep them in prison (on this occasion 30 months) before they are deported?

We all know the prisons are overcrowded and along with the huge cost of keeping people in prison, why are they not deported immediately?

This is another waste of hardworking taxpayers' money. It's about time the Great was put back into Britain.

MRS J BURTON, Locks Heath.