Fears for Fatou's health as deportation fight goes on

CONCERNS are growing for the health of a Liverpool woman who has been in immigration detention for months but her family have new hope that she may avoid being deported from the UK.

- By LIAM THORP

Fatou Tamba has lived in Liverpool for around eight years - with a total of 18 years in the UK but in April she was seized by immigration officials as she checked in with the Home Office.

She has remained in detention centres ever since and has twice been moments away from being deported to her native country of The Gambia in West Africa, with public pressure and legal efforts thwarting these efforts at the last minute.

Ms Tamba first arrived in the UK from The Gambia as a visitor to her brother Lamin, who has British citizenship. But she did not feel she could return to the country as a change of ruling party had made life dangerous for her and her family.