The Independent has reported that 25 Jamaicans who were granted a last-minute reprieve from a deportation flight two weeks ago are still in detention and unable to reunite with their families. Lawyers have said this could be illegal on the part of the Home Office as their removal was ruled unlawful by the courts.
One of them, Reshawn Davis, 30, who has been in the UK since the age of 11 and has a seven-month-old British daughter, said that despite this he was still in detention and hadn’t been informed by the Home Office what was happening with his case. Mr Davis was facing deportation on the basis that he was convicted for robbery 10 years ago under the now-unlawful “joint enterprise” rule – for which he spent two months in prison. Read more about Reshawn and others here.
