Mother who won court case after unlawful detention seeks meeting with Home Office

A mother of four who the Home Office has admitted was unlawfully detained, leading to psychiatric injuries in her children, says she will only be satisfied once the Government proves it has taken measures to prevent anyone else suffering the same ordeal.

Ms Q and her children, aged between three and 11, were detained for 42 days in what her solicitor described as "appalling conditions". But it has taken five years for her case to be resolved, years during which all family members have undergone therapy at the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture (MF) to come to terms not only with the trauma of the torture they fled in Bolivia, but also the trauma of what they endured in detention in the UK.

In 2009, the Home Office admitted "falsely imprisoning" the family and in January 2010, a High Court judge finally approved a settlement of Ms Q's claim, awarding her