Human rights campaigners and lawyers have expressed concern that British citizens who may not have a passport are being targeted for removal by immigration officials. He is being held at Morton Hall in Lincolnshire, a 392-unit immigration removal centre run by the prison service for the Home Office, after serving a 12-month prison sentence for grievous bodily harm. His solicitor is working with members of Tate’s family to obtain documents to prove he is a British citizen. The human rights lawyer Shoaib Khan asked the Home Office how many cases it had of British nationals being detained in immigration removal centres. Where they do not we will enforce their removal – this includes foreign criminals of whom we returned almost 6,000 last year.”

Source: The Guardian April 04, 2018 11:35 UTC