UK deportation of three men halted after detention centre death (The Guardian) (18 September 2019)

The Guardian reports on how the deportation of three men from the UK to Nigeria was halted by the High Court on the basis that they may be able to provide evidence surrounding the death of a man held in Harmondsworth detention centre. Mr Justice Butler made an order preventing the three men from flying but refused to accede to the request for the order to be widened to others due to fly that may also have information on the death. Public law director Toufique Hossain and solicitor Jamie Bell, brought the legal challenge and commented; “The offer of condolences from the organisation in whose supposed ‘care’ a man died is void of any meaning. The Home Office is a removal machine that is now sweeping up potential key witnesses to its own neglect.”