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‘I’ve spent almost 20 years in prison for robbing £20. Now the UK wants to deport me’
- UK plans deportation of Sheldon Coore to Jamaica after nearly 20 years in prison for a £20 theft.
- Coore, 47, has lived in Britain since age 16 months and calls Huddersfield home.
- IPP sentences were scrapped in 2012 but not abolished retrospectively, trapping many inmates in limbo.
- Coore argues deportation would ruin him, having only visited Jamaica once in adulthood.
- Five UK-born daughters and a family network complicate Coore’s potential removal.
- Campaigners urge IPP cases be reviewed to restore proportionality in justice.
- Home Office defends deportations as part of immigration enforcement.
- UN is examining potential human rights breaches in IPP-related cases.
- Coore’s appeal to remain in Britain was dismissed by an immigration tribunal.
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