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Police sanctuary break-up prompts heart attack

By Liz Fekete

1 October 1996

When police broke into a Cornwall church to arrest a Hong Kong immigrant married to a British woman and with a child born in this country, Mr Tong suffered a mild heart attack and had to be taken to hospital.

Even then the Home Office would not relent, insisting that the man would still be deported. Eventually, Mr Tong was given permission to live in Ireland alongside his wife and daughter.

Guardian 22, 25.6.96, 11.7.96

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