EUROCRATS are refusing to reveal the name of the judge who blocked the Rwanda flight.
The hearing, which UK officials did not attend, was held in a private room at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France.
And the ECHR, which still has a Kremlin-backed Russian judge in its ranks, will not tell the Home Office who made the final decision.
Instead officials named seven judges, including ones from Slovenia, Hungary, Ireland and Luxembourg, who have the power to make interim orders.
Home Secretary Priti Patel told MPs yesterday she was concerned about the “opaque” way the decision was made.
A Whitehall source said: “The Court of Appeal was on live TV, the Supreme Court was live, but this decision was made in a backroom in Strasbourg with no one there.”
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The source said government lawyers had been “blind to the process” and the last-ditch intervention sent “two months of hard work” down the pan.
They said British officials could only provide written evidence for their case, but not respond to any new specific claims put forward by charities and migrant campaigners.
At 6.30pm on Tuesday, the court blocked a 54-year-old Iraqi from being put on the flight to Kigali, Rwanda.
He had come to the UK on a small boat in May and his asylum application failed earlier this month.
But his court win sparked three more appeals in our courts which used the ECHR ruling to block their flights.
A final migrant was hauled off under modern slavery laws.
Russian judge Mikhail Lobov will remain a member of the ECHR until September despite Russia pulling out after its invasion of Ukraine.
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