THE Home Office was forced to apologise yesterday to a man it unlawfully detained 250 miles away from his daughter — who was nearly put up for adoption as a result.

The beleaguered department, still reeling from the Windrush scandal that brought down former home secretary Amber Rudd, agreed to pay £50,000 to the pair for breaching their human rights to family life.

Bail for Immigration Detainees director Celia Clarke said that their treatment was merely one example of the “systemic failure” of the Home Office to act lawfully when detaining parents of young children — which is “routine practice.”