One dreary day in November 2004, UK border officials opened the back of a lorry and discovered a 16-year-old Sudanese boy, Jumaa Kater Saleh.
He had travelled illegally for more than 3,000 miles across Europe, in an attempt to escape his war-ravaged homeland and seek asylum in Britain.
As innocuous and vulnerable as he may have seemed, this boy would go on to cause headache after headache for the authorities and for the taxpayer, not to mention trauma to the victims of his crimes.
In 2008, he was convicted of serious sex offences against children.
Last week, however, with the help of the country’s top human rights lawyers and relying on legal aid, he successfully sued the Government for “unreasonable administrative delay”, which had led to him being detained unnecessarily for eight months.
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