Fury as officers ignore stay on minors’ deportation

GARDA immigration officers were last night rebuked for ignoring urgent calls from the legal team of two minors and a wheelchair-bound man who were deported this week.

Physically and intellectually-disabled Romanian Claudiu Laras Bita, 19, his brother Christian, 16, and sister Edith Elizabeth, 11, were granted a temporary injunction on Tuesday preventing their deportation.

Their mother, who applied for asylum in 2001, is understood to have travelled to France leaving the children behind with their 24-year-old sister in Tallaght.