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An immigrant from the Ivory Coast is to get damages from the Home Office in the United Kingdom after a High Court judge ruled last week that her detention for six months with her young daughter while they fought for asylum was unlawful. UK policy states that detention involving families should be a last resort and for a short a time as possible. Miss Konan, 29, arrived in the UK using a false French passport in February 2001 and claimed asylum five days later.