The International Court of Justice ruled the UK’s ongoing administration of the India Ocean land is a ‘wrongful act’.

Former residents of the Chagos Islands, who were forcibly removed from their homeland more than 40 years ago have lost their latest legal challenge at the UK’s highest court.

The cherished hopes of hundreds of exiled families longing to return to their native islands in the Indian Ocean were dashed today when the Law Lords upheld the British government’s last-ditch bid to stop them going home.

THE people of the Chagos Islands, driven from their Indian Ocean paradise by the British government more than 40 years ago, may soon be able to return home after a stunning High Court victory yesterday.

Families expelled from the Chagos Islands by the British government to make way for the Diego Garcia US airbase today won their legal battle to return home.