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Deported six weeks before exams

Home Office refuses to overturn local student’s removal despite appeals from politicians and celebrities

Deported six weeks before exams
02.04.2014
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Home Office refuses to overturn local student’s removal despite appeals from politicians and celebrities

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ENFIELD student Yashika Bageerathi has been deported despite a last ditch court appeal to keep her in the country long enough to finish her exams.

She boarded an Air Mauritius flight that was scheduled to leave Heathrow Airport at 9pm on Wednesday night.

Earlier that evening her lawyers had lodged papers at the Law Courts for an emergency injunction that would have stopped the deportation and given her time to take a case to the Court of Appeal.

But Lord Justice Richards, the appeal judge, refused to order a stay in a telephone hearing.

Earlier, the teenager’s mother begged the authorities live on television to allow Yashika to stay just long enough to finish her A Levels.

Sowbhagyawatee Bageerathi told Channel 4 News: “Where she is going, she is worried about the life and the education. She has worked so hard here and now they want to ruin her life.”

Mrs Bageerathi, who was comforted by Yashika’s headteacher Lynne Dawes as she struggled not to break down, said: “I am very sad for my daughter . I am very worried. I want everybody to go together and not to send her alone.”

Earlier this week, immigration minister James Brokenshire told parliament that the Home Office would not be intervening in her case. It had been through the proper legal process and the Home Office’s decision that she did not need protection from violence or persecution in her homeland had been upheld, he said.

Mr Brokenshire added that, “given the extent and level of judicial and other scrutiny”, home secretary Theresa May had decided not to intervene.

KEITH VAZ INTERVENTION

Earlier Keith Vaz, the chairman of the Home Affairs committee, had written to Mrs May asking her to “urgently reconsider” the “needlessly cruel” decision to deport the student.

It was not clear on Wednesday evening if Mrs May was planning to act on that letter.

However, a statement by Air Mauritius shortly before the airline’s scheduled 9pm flight from Heathrow Airport said it “had no other choice” but to take Ms Bageerathi on board.

The statement said: “Yesterday 1st of April, Air Mauritius received a directive from UK authorities for the repatriation of Miss Bhageerathi. All conditions having been satisfied, the company had no other choice than to abide by the directive.

“The company has taken all steps to ensure that the flight of Miss Bhageerathi takes place in the best possible conditions.

“Air Mauritius regrets this situation, but as all airline companies cannot but abide by decisions taken by relevant authorities.”

Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary, pointed in a tweet to Home Office guidance that states teenagers should be allowed to finish their exams prior to deportation.

She said: “The Home Office has the discretion to decide when and how deportations take place. And their own guidance says, wherever possible, families should not be deported separately and that teenagers should not be removed from the country shortly before major exams.

“So why on earth are UK Border Staff and Ministers insisting that this 19 year old is deported without her family and just months from her A-Levels?

“Discretion is there for a reason, so they can deal with individual cases in a sensible way. Why not let this teenager get her exams done and have her case handled alongside her family as their own guidance says?

“Even at this late stage Ministers should intervene and make sure common sense prevails.”

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