FORMER paramilitary leader and CIA asset Emmanuel Constant has been deported from the US to Haiti, where he was immediately arrested on torture and murder charges.

Mr Constant was among 24 people who landed in Port-au-Prince on Tuesday after being deported from the US, apparently simply as an illegal migrant.

He supported the 1991 US-backed coup against Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a liberation theologian and former priest who became Haiti’s first elected president. Mr Constant led a group called the Front for the Advancement & Progress of Haiti, accused of killing more than 3,000 supporters of the deposed president from 1991-4. From 1992-4 he was on the CIA payroll.