Home Office to pay UK resident £5,750 for 10-hour Calais detention

Border official insisted Slovakian national was using an alias after Home Office misspelled name

The Home Office has agreed to pay nearly 6,000 in a settlement to an EU citizen it detained at the border in a post-Brexit crack down on Europeans entering the country last year.

Miro Matos, a Slovakian who has lived in the UK for 18 years, was so furious at his treatment in Calais that he sued after officials detained him for 10 hours alleging he was using a false name and had not declared a driving offence when he applied for EU settled status.