Deportation appeal

THE Government said it will urgently appeal a court ruling which prevented 25 people being deported to Jamaica on a flight yesterday after a last-minute legal battle with human rights campaigners.

Officials say those due to be deported are all foreign criminals who committed serious offences.

But campaigners, supported by 150 MPs, say they came to the country as children, are “British in every meaningful way” and some were sentenced for one-time drug offences when they were young.