There's a glimmer of hope for an autistic Jamaican man who is facing deportation from Britain after being convicted for stealing a mobile phone.
Osime Brown, 21, was due to be transferred to an immigration detention centre in preparation for being sent to Jamaica.
Following the intervention of his lawyers, however, Mr. Brown has been allowed to return to his family in Dudley in the West Midlands.
In an interview with Britain's Guardian newspaper Mr. Brown's mother, Joan Martin, vowed that she will not stop fighting to prevent her son from being sent to Jamaica.
A new legal appeal is under way against his deportation and his lawyers are gathering fresh evidence in support of his case.
The case has attracted increasing support from British MPs, human rights campaigners and lawyers, who say the Home Office's intention to deport Mr. Brown to Jamaica, a country he left at the age of four, must be challenged.
A petition to oppose the deportation has so far attracted more than 126,000 signatures.
Mr. Brown has a range of difficulties. He was diagnosed with autism at the age of 16 and has also been diagnosed with an underlying anxiety disorder and emotionally unstable personality disorder.
He spent time in care from the age of 16 and was convicted of robbery, attempted robbery and perverting the course of justice in 2018, charges he has insisted he is innocent of.
Mr. Brown completed his prison sentence a few days ago.
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