BREAKING: Flight deporting at least 50 to Jamaica will go ahead despite court ruling
Campaigners have said they believe the planned deportation of more than 50 Jamaicans cannot go ahead, following an intervention by the Court of Appeal.was ordered on Monday evening not to remove anyone scheduled to be deported on the flight from two detention centres near Heathrow Airport, after lawyers launched urgent proceedings amid concerns mobile phone outages had prevented access to legal advice.
Writer Nadine Batchelor-Hunt claimed a detainee at one of the centres had told her the flight was still going ahead. The charity argued that some of the detainees at Colnbrooke and Harmondsworth detention centres still do not have a functioning mobile phone, following issues with an O2 phone mast in the area.
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