Widowed father ordered to leave UK against advice of Home Office's own lawyers

Andrew Farotade refused leave to remain under rules intended to tackle terrorism

A widower who is the sole carer of his four-year-old son has been forbidden to work and ordered to leave the country - even though the Home Office's own lawyers advised them to drop the case.

Andrew Farotade, who is from Nigeria, won a 1,500 scholarship in 2009 to study his second master's degree in engineering at the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen. He then worked for the Security Industry Authority in jobs in which he was responsible for the security of highly valuable, hi-tech equipment and intellectual assets worth millions of pounds.