Refugee wrongly labelled child murderer says decades of his life wasted

Mayooran Thangaratnam fled Sri Lanka for the UK in 2003 after brutal murder of his father but was refused asylum due to error

A refugee wrongly recorded as being a child murderer by the Home Office says almost two decades of his life have been wasted due to the error.

Mayooran Thangaratnam, a 41-year-old Tamil from Sri Lanka, fled to the UK in 2003 at the age of 23 and claimed asylum. He provided evidence to the Home Office from media reports that his father, a journalist who passed information to the UN about the Sri Lankan government's persecution of Tamils, was murdered by Sri Lankan forces and that his life was also in danger.