An Islamic State-supporting illegal migrant was allowed to leave a detention centre after judges found that being confined was bad for his mental health.
The Iranian man, named only as “D8” in court documents, entered Britain illegally on a small boat in March 2021 and claimed asylum.
A 32-year-old Sunni Muslim, he had previously been granted five years’ leave to remain as a refugee in March 2017 after crossing the English Channel in the back of a lorry.
