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Chef fights deportation after being wrongly accused of sex offences
Anti-racism campaigners attend a vigil outside the Home Office in Westminster in October 2019, for the 39 people found dead inside a lorry in Essex
A CHEF from Bangladesh who was offered £5,000 in compensation by the Home Office after it wrongly branded him a sex offender is facing deportation from Britain.
Saiful Islam, 44, has been fighting for 15 years to remain in Britain after his papers were incorrectly linked to three other people’s criminal records.
The Home Office has since apologised for the blunder but still wants to deport him to Bangladesh.
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