A coach pulls up at the plane, Stansted Airport 21:51, July 28, 2015 (PIC Daniel Trilling)
UPDATE 21:24 Tuesday 28 July: Unity Centre report that Fred, mentioned in this piece, has been occupying the roof of the courtyard at Harmondsworth immigration removal centre for the past couple of hours. Whenever Home Office officials try to come near him, he is threatening to jump, Unity says. A mattress has been placed in the courtyard below him: “He has been living in the UK for more than 13 years, since he was 11 years old, and he knows no one in Sierra Leone where they are trying to remove him to.” Yesterday Fred told Unity: “I am 24 years old and I have never been this scared in all my life.”
PUBLISHED 16:00 Tuesday 28 July: The Home Office is preparing to deport dozens of west African migrants on a specially chartered aircraft leaving Stansted tonight, bound for Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Gabon. Immigration officials have reportedly detained hundreds of people this month ahead of the flight.
