‘Man sues police for £1m after wrongful computer entry leads to five-year travel ‘ban’’
Femi’s passport was confiscated by the Home Office in 2013. He was classed as remaining in the UK, where he was born and has lived for most of his life, without leave, after a series of events including an entry made by the Metropolitan Police Service in a national crime database wrongly connecting him to an identity fraudster. He spoke to the Independent about his case. (While it is supposed to be operationally independent, the Metropolitan Police Service, which covers the Greater London area, is part funded and governed by the Home Office; even officially, there is some operational overlap between the two in areas such as immigration and counter-terrorism.)