(BBC) A Guyanese woman has filed a legal challenge against a decision by authorities in Antigua to deport her after she was pardoned.
Rosaline Convay, who is 23, was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison last year for stealing US$37,000 from a regional bank with branches in St John’s.
In November, the Governor General granted Convay clemency on humanitarian grounds – as she served jail time while pregnant.
Court papers have revealed that the Guyanese and her Antiguan boyfriend have filed an application in the High Court for a judicial review of the decision to deport her.
Immigration Minister Errol Cort told a local newspaper that a condition of her early release was that she would be returned forthwith to her country of birth.
