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LATEST: Actor COLIN FIRTH is delighted his campaign to help a Congolese nurse avoid deportation from Britain has been successful.
Known only as PIERRE - which is not his real name - the nurse was one of 40 asylum-seekers being sent back to the Democratic Republic of Congo on a chartered flight yesterday (26FEB07).
But a legal appeal for four members of the group, including Pierre, which was supported by Firth and five bishops, was successful.
Firth’s mother SHIRLEY, president of an asylum-seekers support group, was thrilled at the outcome.
She said, "I am overjoyed because we have worked so hard for him. He had a very good case and would have been in danger if he had been sent back.
"There is a culture of disbelief at the Home Office in assessing applications from refugees. It doesn’t always try to get at what the truth is." Firth became involved in the campaign after hearing of nurse Pierre’s plight through his mother. The refugee fled the Congo after refusing to inject lethal doses of morphine into dissident soldiers and feared for his life if he was forced to return.
The Refugee Council said, "This shows that if you have got a friend on the outside you have a better chance of avoiding deportation.
"But a lot of people don’t have such a friend."

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