Home Office fails to protect vulnerable migrants, high court judge rules

Judgment finds systems designed to protect against inhuman and degrading treatment unlawfully' failing for years

The Home Office has failed to protect vulnerable migrants it locks up in detention centres, a high court judge has ruled.

Mrs Justice Jefford found an unlawful failure of the systems" designed to protect immigration detainees from inhuman and degrading treatment under article 3 of the European convention on human rights and that these failings had been going on for years. The judgment could affect thousands of people who are at risk behind bars.