Irene Clennell first arrived in London in 1988, before the Home Office’s younger staff members were even born. Soon after, she married a British man called John, and received indefinite leave to remain. They made their home in County Durham. They have two children and one grandchild.
Now, though, Clennell is in Singapore, after being detained and forcibly deported on the orders of the British government.
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