Judge 'alarmed' at asylum boys mental state

An Australian judge today said he was alarmed at a report on the mental health of two boys who sought asylum at a British consulate after fleeing an Outback detention centre for illegal immigrants.

Family Court Justice Rodney Burr was speaking at a hearing in Adelaide into the brothers’ application to be freed from the Woomera detention camp, where they were returned after diplomats at the British consulate in Melbourne refused to grant them asylum.