Geelong mum Kelly Webb is set to be deported after botching last chance to stay in Australia
A GEELONG mother-of-five with an extensive criminal history will be booted from Australia after botching her last chance to avoid deportation.
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A GEELONG mother-of-five will be booted from Australia after botching her last chance to avoid deportation under the federal government’s immigration ‘character test’.
Kelly Webb is expected to be released from jail this week and taken to an immigration detention centre after her Australian visa was officially cancelled by Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton.
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It comes after Ms Webb was given a second chance last year, despite her extensive criminal history, after promising she had changed her ways and would remain crime-free.
However, in February she was back in court facing a raft of theft charges including stealing from a liquor store.
The court was told she had a daily methamphetamine habit and purposely avoided meeting with investigating officers fearing she would face deportation.
It was also said she had her two-year-old daughter with her when she committed some of the alleged recent crimes in the Geelong area.
She will be able to challenge the minister’s decision from the Victorian immigration centre but is likely to be unsuccessful after hundreds of other criminals have been successfully deported by the Federal Government.
Ms Webb could not be contacted for this story.
She came to Australia from the United Kingdom in 1988 aged two and was raised in Geelong but was never naturalised.
Records revealed her childhood was marred by “monstrous” domestic violence, which culminated in her killing her stepfather.
After his death she spiralled into a life of crime.
In 2016 her long-term visa was cancelled while she was serving an 18 month sentence for committing burglary with a steak knife.
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However, when release in 2017 Ms Webb pleaded with authorities to give her a second chance and narrowly avoided being deported to the United Kingdom.
“If I get charged with anything, I am back in the immigration centre and that’s not a risk I am going to take,’’ she told the Herald Sun.
On Facebook the mother — whose children range from two to 12 years old — pledged to stay on the straight and narrow.
“The old Kelly Webb is gone the new Kelly has her head screwed on and learnt from her mistakes this time. From now on my kids come first which is how it should have been 2 (sic) begin with but I was (sic) 2 self centred and selfish.
“Can’t wait for my future I believe this is my 2nd chance to raise these kids and I wont f*** that up (sic) 4 nobody.’’
However by the end of 2017 she had again come under police attention.
She is now expected to join the scores of Victorian residents who have been deported, including New Zealanders linked to bikie gangs and teen thugs linked to the violent Apex gang.