Frankly, this treatment is repulsive. All presumably to seek tough on crime, we take people’s rights away and expose them to inhumane treatment.

Why did the Home Office spend so much money deporting a man who had committed a non-custodial offence nine years earlier, was not considered likely to offend again, has a British wife and child in the UK and was diagnosed as being seriously mentally ill, with the threat of removal seriously exacerbating his mental illness? How was he able to swallow two vape batteries and conceal a razor blade while being heavily guarded in segregation? The Home Office has declined to answer these questions.

A Home Office spokesperson said: “The public rightly expect to be protected from sex offenders and this individual has already been deported.

Office has declined to say how much it has cost to remove Omar, a conservative estimate suggests a bill to the UK taxpayer of hundreds of thousands of pounds.

Was it worth it?