Bolivian refugee family to get damages from Home Office

Bolivian refugee family to get damages from Home Office

A Bolivian family is to receive damages of thousands of pounds from the Home Office for false imprisonment during a review of the refugees' case.



Carmen Quiroga and her four children, aged three to 11 at the time, spent six weeks in Oakington immigration centre in Cambridgeshire in 2004.

The Home Office accepted they should have been freed when they applied for a judicial review against deportation.

The family was granted the right to stay in the UK in 2008.

Bhatt Murphy Solicitors, representing the family, argued the detention was illegal for reasons including a failure to prioritise the welfare of the children, in contravention of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Save for the gas chambers, this is rather like the Nazis herding Jews, etc, into cattle trucks and sending them to concentration camps.