Luke Littler roped into Parliament’s asylum dispute for ‘wanting 35 at age 16’
The Government’s method to figuring out whether or not an asylum seeker is a baby has been probed as a Liberal Democrat peer used Luke Littler for example of a youngster who appears to be like older than his age.
Baroness Hamwee advised Parliament that the darts participant, who made it to the ultimate of the World Championship earlier this 12 months, “looked about 35” regardless of being 16 years outdated on the time. Lady Hamwee mentioned that the Government’s assessments of “young men” who it deems to be adults, and never youngsters, must be checked out.
Those searching for asylum within the UK, who haven’t any credible proof of their age, are topic to age assessments by the Home Office. As friends continued their line-by-line scrutiny of the Rwanda Bill on Wednesday, Lady Hamwee mentioned: “We will come subsequent week, as (Baroness Brinton) mentioned, to the place of youngsters and that may embrace the query of age evaluation.
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“I hope somebody in that debate will draw attention to the Government’s references to young men, who are really men, not children, when they come across the Channel.
“I’m certain different noble Lords noticed on our tv screens that tremendous darts participant, Luke Littler. He regarded significantly greater than a baby, he regarded about 35 truly.”
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A joint report by the Refugee Council, the Helen Bamber Foundation and Humans for Rights Network discovered that the Home Office’s method to figuring out the age of latest arrivals led to not less than 1,300 refugee youngsters being positioned in unsupervised grownup lodging or detention between January 2022 and June 2023.
It additionally warned that measures within the Illegal Migration Act may result in a whole bunch of youngsters being wrongly faraway from the UK and despatched to Rwanda. Littler, who turned 17 final month, returns to Premier League motion in Glasgow on Thursday night time.
