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Duncan Lewis’ client Kelvin Bilal Fawaz, a boxer who has represented England six times at amateur level, has been released from immigration detention after legal action was threatened over his unlawful detention. The 31 year old, who was brought to the UK from Nigeria as a child, was arrested and sent to Brook House immigration removal centre last month. It is the second time he has been detained, after being detained in 2017 at Tinsley House where he was identified as an adult ‘at risk’ on mental health grounds. Ahmed Aydeed, part of the Duncan Lewis team representing Fawaz, told The Guardian that the decision to detain him a second time was baseless; “Whilst in immigration detention in 2017, the Home Office accepted that our client was an ‘at risk’ adult, yet they arrested and detained him again for an interview that could have been done whilst he was at liberty. They did this knowing that detention was likely to have a severely detrimental effect on his mental health. It is a callous disregard for someone’s health and right to liberty.”