Amelia Gentleman shares the highs and lows of piecing together one of the most important stories of the year
How long had you been researching and investigating before the first piece was published? Can you tell us what prompted you to start looking into it? Was there any point when you thought you might not be able to publish?
The investigation took months of work before the Guardian’s reporting of catastrophic Home Office failures erupted into a massive political scandal. From the moment I met Paulette Wilson, the 61-year-old, former House of Commons canteen worker, who had been detained and threatened with deportation after being misclassified as an illegal immigrant, I realised her case had been badly mishandled. But it was only after weeks of talking to small immigration charities around the country and hearing from more people affected that it began to be absolutely clear that these were not peculiar, one-off cases but that something had gone wrong at the Home Office on a huge scale.
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