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A mother of five who has lived in Australia for most of her life could be deported to the United Kingdom. A mother of five who has lived in Australia for most of her life is facing deportation to the UK.
Kelly Webb was jailed in 2014 for a burglary she committed with a knife. Kelly Webb, 30, a recovering drug addict, has been in and out of prison and last April was given an 18-month sentence for aggravated burglary.
On her release, the 30-year-old was taken into immigration detention as visas can be revoked when someone has spent more than a year in jail. On her release, she was taken into immigration detention and is awaiting a decision by Australian ministers.
Webb moved to Australia in 1988 when she was two years old but never became an Australian citizen or naturalised, local media said. Webb, who left the UK when she was two, fears she and her children would end up living on the streets if deported.
She told an Australian radio station that she learned her visa had been revoked shortly before her release from prison. Under Australian law, visas can be revoked when someone has spent more than a year in jail.
"I found out three days before I was due for parole from prison," Webb said on 3AW. 'Cruellest thing'
"I got pulled into the office and they said to me you will be going to an immigration detention centre. Webb, 30, has not been back to the UK since her mother, father and elder sister first travelled to Australia in 1988, from Stoke-on-Trent in the Midlands.
"I was two years old when I came to Australia," Webb said, adding that she had not left the country since her arrival. Speaking to BBC News from a detention centre, she said: "If I end up in the UK, I'd have no housing, no family, no friends. I could not take the children - I could not be that selfish. I would be living on the streets with the poor little buggers."
Webb, who admits being a regular user of illegal drugs, has an extensive criminal history, including a conviction for killing her stepfather. Webb, who never became an Australian citizen or naturalised, said: "Had I known this could happen, I would have got citizenship.
She was sentenced to a good-behaviour bond after the court heard he had been abusive over an extended period, media reports said. "If the minister says I can't stay, there's nothing else I can do. I'll have to pack my bags. They will take me to the airport. And that's it."
Webb said in the radio interview that she had been incarcerated 11 times over the course of her life, and that she had no friends or family in the United Kingdom. Webb, from Geelong in Victoria, said she found out she faced deportation in March, three days before she was due for parole.
"This is the cruellest thing anyone could ever do," she said, adding that her prescription for anti-depressants had been doubled to help her cope.
Drug addiction
Webb has an extensive criminal history, including a conviction for killing her stepfather. She was sentenced to a good-behaviour bond after the court heard he had been abusive over an extended period.
"I know I have done a lot of bad things - they've been mostly due to drug addiction," she said, adding that she has undergone recovery and rehabilitation programmes.
"I'm not a bad person. I made wrong choices. I want a quiet life with me and my children. I want to keep my family together."
Her eldest, nine, currently lives with his father in Perth. While in prison, her six-year-old twins and five-year-old son are being cared for by their paternal grandmother, and her one-year-old baby girl is with Webb's mother.
Her late husband, father to her four youngest, was killed in a motorcycling accident last year.
While in detention, she is able to see her baby once a week, but has not seen her other children and describes the conditions there as worse than prison.
"It's so, so hard. I just want to be a mother to my children. Their dad was killed - I am all they have got."