TWO young boys and their mother were deported at the weekend - despite a protest campaign in Huddersfield.

Siti Hassan and her children, Rajael and Irfan, were flown back to Malaysia on Saturday night, after hopes of a reprieve were dashed.

The family had been living in Lockwood and there was a campaign to let them stay in the UK.

Now a complaint is set to be lodged with immigration services after the enforced removal of Malaysian-born Miss Hassan.

Huddersfield MP Barry Sheerman has also been contacted after Miss Hassan and her two young boys were taken back to Malaysia on Saturday at 10pm.

Christine Myring, who taught Siti, 30, in Huddersfield, said her treatment had been inhumane.

She said: "They took her in handcuffs. She couldn't say much at the time, but she was roughly treated. They dug fingernails into her neck and things like that."

Ms Myring became friends with Siti, who was studying to go to university. On Friday she travelled down to Yarlswood detention centre in Bedfordshire, where Miss Hassan and her children, aged two and four, were being held.

Miss Hassan called her from Malaysia when she arrived and said she had been badly treated. She was only given photocopies of her documents and Ms Myring said: "Nobody will accept these in Malaysia."

She added: "I'm really saddened by the whole thing. I'm ashamed in some ways of being British that we can treat people in such an inhumane way.

"She was a soft target. There's such a hard line on getting people out of the country that they are not treating people as individuals."

She has sent Miss Hassan money, so that she would have enough for her first night.

The matter has also been passed on to the Kraft (Kirklees Refugees and Friends Together) organisation. It is expected to lodge a formal complaint.

Miss Hassan, who is originally from Penang, was treated badly by her first husband and abandoned by her second. In desperation, she came to England in 2003.

Her children, one by each father, are both mixed-race.

Because of the strict Islamic society in Malaysia, Miss Hassan fears that they will all be ostracised.

A judge rejected her asylum appeal because he felt her life was not in danger.