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Asylum seeker freed from detention unit

10:30am Tuesday 11th October 2011 in News

AN ASYLUM seeker has returned to his Bury home after almost being deported to Cameroon.

Bernard Batey, of Kestrel Drive, was released on Friday from Colnbrook immigration removal centre, in Middlesex, where he had been held for nearly four weeks.

He was detained by officers from UK Border Agency after losing his fight to remain in the UK.

But a judge granted an injunction stopping his deportation just 24 hours before the flight and he is continuing his legal battle for asylum, along with his wife, Lydia Besong.

The couple have a new solicitor preparing a judicial review, which will be heard on Monday, October 17 at the High Court in Manchester.

The couple fled Cameroon in 2006, claiming they were persecuted for their involvement with the SCNC, a pressure group campaigning for independence for southern Cameroon.

It is alleged they were both imprisoned and tortured in Cameroon and Mrs Besong was raped by a prison guard.

Comments(20)

R'Marcus says...
4:11pm Thu 6 Oct 11

Silly judge nobody.
As the man is an illegal migrant he should have been sent back to is homeland. Don't believe his story. It is makebelieve anyway!

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Apple King says...
10:04pm Thu 6 Oct 11

So you're an expert on the case are you R'Marcus? Lets hope you're never persecuted, tortured or worse, we'll all think your making it up.

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Tommyh says...
10:34pm Thu 6 Oct 11

It's simple,Send em all home..Instead of giving them our tax money's which we and our Ancestors have saved over many Century's..No wonder this land of OUR's has no money left..Too many foreign scroungers..If there was more money in there country they would'nt give GREAT BRITAIN a second glance!!

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Tommyh says...
10:36pm Thu 6 Oct 11

Whilst on the subject Council houses were bought with our moneyso why do the foreigners think they are entitled to OUR houses!!

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Apple King says...
11:55pm Thu 6 Oct 11

You sound like a certain Austrian circa 1939 Tommyh. What next, round 'em all up in to big camps? Your compassion is underwhelming. Considering our ancestors took over the world & made this THEIR motherland, I think you're a little misguided

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Tommyh says...
12:27pm Fri 7 Oct 11

Immigration is a big problem over here,That's part of why there is a recession Apple King,too many handouts!!

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Apple King says...
9:05pm Fri 7 Oct 11

While I tend to agree that money is going to people it shouldn't, Tommyh, genuine people like Bernard shouldn't be persecuted in any country. Having worked for the Civil Service, the amount of money owed by people overpaid benefits would blow your socks off. We're not a heartless nation & charity does begin at home but there does need to be common sense in place.

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fusilier says...
9:19pm Fri 7 Oct 11

ok call me racist or a xenophobe i really dont give a **** anymore but its time we put our own country first.

i dont care about your colour creed or faith as long as your British. We should look after our own first. Let the governments of other countries look after their people.

We cant afford to do it anymore.

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Apple King says...
9:31pm Fri 7 Oct 11

So you'll happily pay to feed, water & house people like Peter Sutcliffe, Ian Huntley, Ian Brady etc because they're British? Makes you proud eh?! FFS

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fusilier says...
9:01am Sat 8 Oct 11

no i would rather pay an executioner for those home grown scum. i want a return of the death penalty for serious crimes but that is a separate issue.

Stop trying to put a smokescreen over the issue being discussed. illegal immigrants and bogus asylum seekers should be sent back to the point of origin. i'd rather pay for their flight home than all the perks they get handed them at the moment.

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Apple King says...
9:52pm Sat 8 Oct 11

Hang fire, you were the one that said 'i dont care about your colour creed or faith as long as your British'. Therefore you'd prefer child murders to innocent people who are being tortured, raped & expelled from their homes? My family are catholics, originally from Belfast until one of the factions made them all homeless after threatening to burn the house down with all 8 of them in. Cheers, I wouldn't be alive now if people like you had their way.

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Tommyh says...
12:59am Sun 9 Oct 11

England Is probably the only country you can go to and have an absolutely free holiday!!and stay as long as you like...............E
njoy the sunshine!!

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Apple King says...
1:11am Sun 9 Oct 11

HOLIDAY? We fled for our lives. Do you lot work or are you Government artists (drawing the dole, if you needed it explaining) I'll be in the Two Tubs in Bury tomorrow afternoon (sunday 9/10/11) if you'd like to discuss this further.

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Tommyh says...
1:29am Sun 9 Oct 11

Are you a drunk Apple king..Disgusting!!..
.Mines a lager!!

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Tommyh says...
1:45am Sun 9 Oct 11

Sound like you've just fell out of the Two Tubs....It's about time people like you stopped thinking that Bury is Twinned with Disney land!

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basilthefox says...
11:15am Tue 11 Oct 11

**Applauds Apple King**

I was thinking along similar lines, about a separate issue, just this morning. Too many people who have the "send 'em back", "lock 'em up", "string 'em up" attitude to complex problems clearly aren't intelligent enough to understand the wider issues surrounding individual cases. Yes, there are people who take the P*ss and they do need dealing with appropriately - that we probably agree on. However knee-jerk, black & white clichéd responses to complex problems reveal more about the person ranting them than it does the subject of the target of their rants!

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Prisoner of Society says...
8:00pm Tue 11 Oct 11

basilthefox wrote:
**Applauds Apple King**

I was thinking along similar lines, about a separate issue, just this morning. Too many people who have the "send 'em back", "lock 'em up", "string 'em up" attitude to complex problems clearly aren't intelligent enough to understand the wider issues surrounding individual cases. Yes, there are people who take the P*ss and they do need dealing with appropriately - that we probably agree on. However knee-jerk, black & white clichéd responses to complex problems reveal more about the person ranting them than it does the subject of the target of their rants!
**High-five's basilthefox**

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ivor motif says...
12:28am Thu 13 Oct 11

asylum refused,appeal dismissed,lower tribunal rejected,upper tribunal dismissed all at considerable cost-we could start by reducing the number of times an asylum seeker is told no before removal is considered or withdraw from the UN 51 Convention and accept an agreed quota from UNHCR, a number affordable. Until then bogus cases economically harm the UK and the will of the majority is ignored

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elaine2508 says...
11:49pm Thu 3 Nov 11

Tommyh wrote:
It's simple,Send em all home..Instead of giving them our tax money's which we and our Ancestors have saved over many Century's..No wonder this land of OUR's has no money left..Too many foreign scroungers..If there was more money in there country they would'nt give GREAT BRITAIN a second glance!!
i agree tommy h send them home give us out country back

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elaine2508 says...
11:49pm Thu 3 Nov 11

Tommyh wrote:
It's simple,Send em all home..Instead of giving them our tax money's which we and our Ancestors have saved over many Century's..No wonder this land of OUR's has no money left..Too many foreign scroungers..If there was more money in there country they would'nt give GREAT BRITAIN a second glance!!
i agree tommy h send them home give us out country back

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