It is hard to imagine the shock and distress suffered by Selina Adda and her two children, Brian and Chelsea, when they were suddenly taken from their home in The Meadows early last Monday morning (Evening Post, October 2).

Brian and Chelsea were expecting to go to school as usual at St Patrick's in Wilford. Brian has attended St Patrick's for three years, and apparently is a model pupil.

Instead, their home was raided by immigration officers, and the family were driven off to Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre near Bedford.

There they were locked up inside a place which is thoroughly unsuitable for children, as the chief inspector of prisons has repeatedly warned. Children are sometimes held in Yarl's Wood for weeks at a time.

It is wrong to treat children in this way. It is certainly an abuse of their rights as children, as the Council of Europe's commissioner for human rights recently reported.

Hopefully, the family will be allowed to stay in Nottingham permanently, where they belong. They should never have been treated this way in the first place.

ANTHONY SIMPSON Selby Road West Bridgford