A tribunal has awarded a Jamaican lesbian “refugee protection” in the United Kingdom following her appeal that she would be at risk of persecution and clinical depression should she return to this country.
The BBC reported that the woman, who had left Jamaica to study abroad in 2003, and now lives in Stoke-on-Trent, was originally refused the right to remain in the UK by the Home Office.
However, she appealed on the grounds that in Jamaica, which she described as a “deeply homophobic” country, she had been threatened with ‘corrective rape’ and suffered clinical depression.
She said that it was only in the UK that she could live her life as an openly gay person and that her girlfriend would be unwilling to return with her to Jamaica given the situation here.
