Mother’s deportation to Gambia halted by judge after she was rushed to Heathrow at 3am
A mother, who faced political persecution in the indigenous African country, had to wait 12 hours at Heathrow airport before a home office tried to exile her to Gambia.
Although Fatou Tamba has been living with his family in Liverpool for the last 16 years and he has been a very popular member of the community, he has been held in an detention center for almost four months.
He was taken to the 55 -year -old airport at 3 am on Tuesday in the morning, and his flight was told to get up at 16:40 and tried to determine the application of a judge.
His abolition, despite a legal case initiated by his lawyers to prevent the deportation of a disruption of a mental health from “reliable medical evidence”.
Only two hours before the removal of the flight, the judicial examination application was accepted by a judge and the flight was canceled once again every 11th hour.
After being taken to Heathrow in the middle of May 6, May 6, he was left “traumatized, to wait for hours before he reached his lawyers or his family, and they said that the removal of Gambia was canceled at the last moment.
As a result, his lawyers are struggling with the PTSB while being detained in the wooden immigration center in Bedfordshire, where his mental and physical health is seriously worsening.
However, the Ministry of Interior issued a new notification of deportation for June 17 and his brother Lamin Tamba Independent No explanation was given to justify their removal.
“As if there was a personal fight with my sister, Mr. Mr. Tamba said. “No criminal records, he never complied with the immigration forces, it was not a danger for the people. He is well known in the Liverpool community, he worked for charities, not a burden on the taxpayer and here for 16 years.”
Ms. Tamba traveled to England to visit her brother in 2009, and became precarious because of the participation of the political activity that saw that his family received death threats in Gambia.
As a child, he had to marry a man with a 30 -year -old man at the age of 14, and he was subjected to abuse for years he escaped.
After a few years in Birmingham, he moved to Liverpool, where he lived for the last eight years, and took action to live with his wife and became an active member of the refugee and asylum -seeking community.
Although his family, including his son, was able to secure the visas provided to receive, Mrs. Tamba was rejected in 2021 and in the following years, the immigration authorities participated in monthly appointments.
In March, he was unexpectedly detained in one of these meetings, and since then he remained in the wooden IRC of both DerwentSide IRC and Yarl.
Over the last three months, his brother claims that diabetes, mental health and arthritis worsen, and now he requires a wheelchair to attend the meetings.
However, more importantly, if it is deported to Gambia, a less developed country with limited access to health services, is a lack of medical support.
“He would come back on his own without support, Mr. Mr. Tamba said. “The medical services in Gambia are close to those who do not exist, and the diabetes they have here will not be treated there.
“A shortened life expectancy is facing, this is a guarantee.”
Duncan Lewis’s lawyer Jamie Bell said, uz We are happy to accept a judge’s abolition of Fatou’s planned on Tuesday.
“Although a series of last -minute decisions and the Ministry of the Interior refused to give the time of the flight, we acknowledged that a judge had important questions to be answered before being removed.
“Fatou has now been detained for four months; he left his friends, families and support in Liverpool. During this time we are extremely worried about his mental and physical health, this morning, and took him to the airport at 3 o’clock despite the representation of the house office.
“We work as much as possible to stay for him and get permission to return to his community in Liverpool.”
The spokesman of the Ministry of Interior said that not to comment on individual cases have long -term policies.
