Sunday, May 29, 2005

Judge awards damages to teen asylum seekers / Cambridge News, 28 May 2005

http://digbig.com/4dnnb
"A judge said Home Office immigration officials acted 'irrationally' in not accepting the evidence of a top paediatrician that both boys were only 16 and not lying about their age.
Both are now entitled to damages because they are victims of a breach of Home Office policy that requires unaccompanied asylum seekers under 18 to be put in the care of local authorities, and not sent to detention centres."