Irish baby girl held in UK detention centre

AN Irish baby girl has been locked up behind a barbed wire fence in a detention centre in Britain for more then seven days.

One year old Percieliz Ikolo, born in Dublin's Rotunda Hospital, is being held with her Cameroon-born mother at the Dungavel centre in Scotland, where nearly 200 children have been detained over the last year. The much criticised centre, meant for those due to be deported, is a closed facility surrounded by barbed wire and controlled by uniformed guards.

The Department of Foreign Affairs has launched an investigation and said officials are attempting to establish the facts of the case.