THE Home Office has denied losing the paperwork of a British Army lance-corporal who was refused a visa to bring his teenage daughter from Kenya to his Highland home.

We revealed on Wednesday how civil servants in Home Secretary Sajid Javid’s office could not find documentation for the application by Denis Omondi for his 14-year-old daughter Anne.

Omondi is with the Black Watch, 3 Scots, based at Fort George, and has served in Afghanistan and Iraq. He and his wife Shelagh want the teenager to make her home with them in Inverness.

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His MP, Drew Hendry, spoke to staff in Javid’s office earlier this week, and was told they couldn’t find their own correspondence with their own reference number.

In a statement to The National yesterday, a Home Office spokesperson said: “No documents relating to Mr Omondi’s application have been lost. We are in contact with Mr Omondi about his case, which is being reviewed, and it would be inappropriate to comment further at this stage.”

However, Shelagh Omondi told us: “It does feel like they have forgotten it’s a little girl who is suffering through all this nonsense. The whole thing just feels farcical.

“We are trying to shelter Ann but the longer this goes on the more worried for her we become.

“She’s had some of her possessions stolen at school and has said she’s unhappy and lonely. We both just want her here so she can be safe and happy. There is a whole community waiting to welcome her and a family waiting too.”