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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Diane Taylor

Home Office fails to protect vulnerable migrants, high court judge rules

Inside view of detention centre with tables and chairs surrounded by secure doors
Brook House immigration detention centre near Gatwick, where the two detainees who brought the case were held. Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA Archive/PA Images

The Home Office has failed to protect vulnerable migrants it locks up in detention centres, a high court judge has ruled.

Mrs Justice Jefford found an unlawful failure of the “systems” designed to protect immigration detainees from inhuman and degrading treatment under article 3 of the European convention on human rights and that these failings had been going on for years. The judgment could affect thousands of people who are at risk behind bars.

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