Children ‘missing’ as deportation order confirmed

Two children of a Nigerian woman were still ‘officially’ missing last night after a judge decided that she was lawfully in custody awaiting deportation.

Mr Justice Michael White heard yesterday that Gloria Okeralen had not been totally candid in evidence that had been presented to the court about gardaí having allegedly taken the two children, aged 8 and 5, and having “distributed them to persons unknown.”

Anthony Moore, counsel for the minister for justice, said Ms Okeralen, of College View, Ballymun, Dublin, had made very serious allegations against members of the Garda National Immigration Bureau.