Human rights lawyers say convicted criminals should not be sent back to Jamaica after at least five men deported from Britain were murdered when they returned.
The men, who have convictions for violence and drug related offences, have been killed on the Caribbean island over the past year.
The Home Office has been accused of 'breaching human rights' over the deportations, because their lives 'may be in danger.'
Legal experts say the government is flouting strict rules which bans deportations to countries with a high level of violent crime.
Jamaica currently has one of the highest murder rates in the world. Last year there were 1,287 murders in the country, about 47 per 100,000 population. In the UK there were contrast, there were 726 homicides in the UK – 12 per million of the population.
Owen Clarke (left) a convicted drug dealer and Alphonso Harriott, right, who was murdered in March
The Guardian reports that they have 'verified' the deaths of five men and have been told of other returnees who also fear for their lives.
Naga Kandiah, a public law solicitor at MTC & Co which deals with many Jamaican deportation cases said the government's human rights obligations were not dependent on past behaviour.
He told The Guardian: 'The Home Office's own guidance recognises the high level of crime there due to organised gangs.
'Nobody is saying that these men had not committed crimes, but it is a clear breach of human rights legislation to send them back to a country where their life could be in serious danger.'
Jamaica currently has one of the highest murder rates in the world. Pictured: Armed police on the streets in Kingston, the country's capital
