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Tuesday  27 September

Annual General meeting

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Leonie Mendo and her daughter Stacey

Leonie Mendo is from Cameroon. She came to the UK at the invitation of a man she met over the internet. He then locked her up, abused her and forced her into prostitution. When she became pregnant she was discarded. Only then was she able to ask the police for help.

But she had no papers. The immigration court did not believe her account, nor has it accepted the expert witness reports of a midwife, a psychologist and a rape crisis counsellor.

Leonie is an only child and has recently learned of her mother’s death in Cameroon. She is beginning to recover from her ordeal and starting to build a life for herself and her two-year old daughter, Stacey.  But now she has been told she will not get humanitarian protection in the UK. She must go back to Cameroon.

There is more information in these letters - if you can, please sign and send them, and ask people to sign the petition and send it to the Home Secretary:

Letter to the Home Secretary (email)~ Letter to the Deputy Prime Minister (email) ~ Petition to ask for permission the stay

It would also help if you let us know - and thank you very much.