LOCK’EM-UP Tories are spending more than £4 million of taxpayers’ money each year to compensate people wrongly held in detention centres, it was revealed yesterday.

According to a Freedom of Information request by the BBC, the government shelled out £18m between 2011 and 2015 on foreign citizens arrested unlawfully.

Anti-detention campaign Movement for Justice spokeswoman Karen Doyle told the Star: “Immigration detention is falling apart at the seams because of the movement that has grown demanding its end.