Iraq war veteran's mother wins deportation reprieve
I reported yesterday on the disgraceful case of Joy Bowman, a woman whose two sons had served in Iraq, who was nevertheless facing deportation. It appears that, at the last minute, the government has had a change of heart.
There is always the chance that they will deport her when the publicity dies down. I'll keep you all up to speed as and when I come across anything.The deportation of an Iraq war veteran's mother was dramatically halted yesterday when the Immigration minister, Liam Byrne, said he would personally review her case.
Mr Byrne's decision to intervene in the case of Joy Bowman was announced at 10.30am, as she awaited the arrival of Immigration Service officers. She had expected them to remove her from her home in Newcastle upon Tyne to a detention centre near Heathrow, ahead of deportation to Jamaica with her 15-year-old daughter, who is studying for GCSEs.
Mrs Bowman, 49, whose case was highlighted yesterday by The Independent, said she still feared deportation to Jamaica. "I feel as if someone has just placed me, standing up, in a big fridge and that when the media has gone they will let me out and send me back," she said. "I can only trust in God that they won't."
Tyneside Community Action for Refugees (TCAR), which took up her case, also fears she will be quietly removed when publicity has abated. Among those to have met such a fate are the Narantsogt family from Mongolia, who were removed from Liverpool two years ago after Des Browne, as immigration minister, had ordered a initial reprieve, amid local protests against deportation.
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