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Ten fascinating stories of people who campaigned for change and made an impact on the history of the world. Book jacket.

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A Home Office flight the deportation of convicted criminal offenders to Jamaica, Britain has to leave, despite a last-minute legal challenge.

Downing Street said, 17 people have been deported, but 25 others stopped because of the court order.

on Monday evening after concerns that some detainees may not have had access to legal advice.

said A woman, whose husband was from the escape, there was confusion about what would happen next.

All those who are deported Jamaican nationals, were found guilty of crimes and given Prison sentences of 12 months or more.

In a statement, the Prime Minister , the spokesman said: "we bitterly regret" the decision of the court, which will not leave the 25 people, and urge.

"the actions of these people were responsible for a homicide, a firearms offense, seven offences of violence, Two that said, in the category of rape or sexual offences and 14 drug-related offences," the spokesperson.

He added: "We make no apology at all for the search to remove serious foreign criminals. "

On Monday, the government should not think of the prisoners of Colnbrooke and Harmondsworth detention centres to deport, in the vicinity of Heathrow after prosecutors argued that cell phone signal problems, some of the detainees could not receive legal advice.

The ruling said the government must deport every one of these centers, unless you have access to a functioning, non-O2 Sim card, on or before the 3. February.

'Moral debate'

There had been calls on the government, the suspension of The Flight , until a report on the Windrush scandal was published.

A leaked draft of The Report , said the government should consider to quit the born on the deportation of foreign offenders came to the UK as children.

activists argued that most of the detainees had to be due to be deported, spent most of her life in the UK.

activists protested against The Flight outside Downing Street on Monday

Bella Sankey, Director of charity action in Prison , told the Bbc News Channel: "In these cases, where people have been Here for a long time, and are to all intents and purposes, The British , the deportation of people like you, they double punish.

"For many of these individuals, deportation is a much harsher punishment than the time served you already have. Imagine, for always in which you grew up, can not attend be banished from the country, all your close family and friends. "

immigration attorney Jacqueline Mckenzie of the BBC, Victoria said Derbyshire programme: "It is a moral debate about it, because it can't be right that we are picking up people in their 30s, who came to Two . and sends it to the countries that you don't know, leave all of your family. "

Tottenham MP David Lammy said it was an "outrage", which had left The Flight .

"The government wants to give the impression that anyone who was deported, was a hardened violent criminal, but the reality is, many of those who were planned to be deported, had active non-violence, one-time drug offenses.

"not learned The lessons from Windrush. To be ruined, because we are not our story. "

Tonique Kerr said her husband, Reshawn Davis, was in the UK for 20 years, among which, said on Monday that he is not on the run.

"We don't know what happened," she told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme.

Ms Kerr said that her husband had been sentenced, after he only served Two months under the controversial joint enterprise law, which were stolen 14 months in Prison - although, according to Two mobile phones, and he was just there when it happened".

"He came [to the UK], when he was 11," She Said . "He's not actually back, he came to This Country . He is now 30, he spent the majority of his life Here . "

Shabana Mahmood MP said one of their components were from The Flight .

"He actually served in The British army," She Said . "He has Two tours to Afghanistan, when he came back, he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder.

"He was. diagnosed with bipolar disorder, and this kind of began the deterioration of his Mental Health , after he was convicted for GBH

"has worsened His Mental Health and his argument was always: he served This Country , he didn't help for the PTSD he picked up as a serving soldier for Our Country .

"So it really goes to the core of our notions of what it is to be a citizen. "

The Flight had GMT due to leave for Kingston at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday .

Home Secretary Priti Patel said that on The Flight included serious offenders

Chancellor, Sajid Javid , no one said protected by the judgment of the court of justice was on the run.

"It is absolutely right that, if you served the punishment that we send out of the country," Mr Javid BBC Radio 5 Live said on Tuesday morning.

"you are not are not British nationals, they are members of the Windrush generation, they are all foreigners-offenders. "

On Tuesday , the Home Office , said: "Today, 17 serious foreign criminals were deported from the United Kingdom. They were offences, convicted of rape, violence, crime and drugs, and had a combined record length of 75 years and a Life Sentence .

"We make no apology at all for the removal of dangerous foreign criminals.

"We are urgently pursuing the elimination of those who were prevented from from boarding The Flight due to a legal challenge, via a mobile network error. "

And the PM's spokesman said: "The legal procedure for the removal of these offenders - which again appeals, and the court took the side of verification has already cost The British public for tens of thousands of pounds.

"The taxpayer is now left with the left with a larger bill and the views of the convicts, as a threat to the UK on bail, while the matter is Resolved . "

The Home -Office complies with the decision of the court, "I have no-one in Jamaica,'

One of those was due to be deported on Tuesday , a father of five, Howard Ormsby's.

He was sent to Prison for 18 months after he was convicted of possession with intent to supply Class A drugs and he was released in December.

"I came Here at the age of 15 with my older sister, and I have 18 years of My Life ," says the 32-year-old said in an interview with the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire map from a detention centre in Harmondsworth, west London.

"I've never tried to deny the fact that I made a mistake, but everyone has the chance to right your wrong.

"I've got my whole family is Here - I have no-one in Jamaica. "

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