Baby Rafeeq Atanda Recalled Back to The UK After Deportation Saga

Little Rafeeq Atanda, the British-Nigerian boy deported even after his mother spent years making a heartbreaking appeal for her son to be allowed to stay in the UK – because he was born there has received reprieve.

The Home Office has been ordered to bring a woman and her son back to the UK after they were deported.
In an unusual move judges told the department to organise the return of the mother and the five-year-old British-born boy from her native Nigeria.

They found that in ordering the pair’s removal from the UK in January, the Home Office “failed to have regard to (the child’s) best interests as a primary consideration”.

After agreeing to a judicial review of the case, the judges ordered the Home Secretary to “take all reasonable steps” to ensure the mother and her child’s return.