vindicated by events. They have not done so. The disclosure of her address to her husband has come about by other means entirely. 36 PNA must be compensated for the immediate shock of the discovery of the posting of information about her and for a period, to be counted in a few months at most, of genuine concern about the possible consequences and for her expressed feeling that, because of the posting by a body of the Home Office, to whom she had given information in confidence, she could no longer trust authorities. I assess the damages in her case at £3,000, an award which is not out of kilter with awards for less severe psychiatric and psychological injury. 37 PNB is a Tamil citizen of Sri Lanka. She is married to a husband, with whom she does not live, and has three children. She arrived in the United Kingdom with her three children in 2010 and claimed asylum. Her claim was rejected by the Home Office. She appealed to the First Tier Tribunal, which allowed her appeal in 2015. The Home Office appealed to the Upper Tribunal, ultimately unsuccessfully. The appeal was dismissed in 2016. I do not know if she has now been recognised as a refugee and granted leave to remain, but proceed on the basis that if she has not yet been she will soon be. 38 She has given a harrowing account of events in Sri Lanka which preceded her arrival in the United Kingdom. This account must have been accepted as credible, at least to the low standard by which asylum claims are assessed in the First Tier Tribunal and Upper Tribunal: is there a realistic possibility that her core account is true? Mr. Sanders has not challenged it in these proceedings. I am therefore content to accept that it is true in its essentials. 39 In 2006 she was detained, tortured and repeatedly raped by the Sri Lankan army. She escaped to France and then Malaysia. Following her return to Sri Lanka by the Malaysian authorities, she was again detained and raped repeatedly by members of a government agency and an allied paramilitary group. She fled again, this time to the United Kingdom. She impressed Dr. Mala Singh, a consultant psychiatrist, who examined her in connection with her asylum claim on 28 February 2014, six weeks after she was notified of the posting by the Home Office, as an honest historian of her experiences and symptoms. Though she gave evidence through an interpreter, she gave me the impression that she was doing her best to tell the truth as she remembered it. 40 The posting gave her full name, nationality, age and the area in which she lived, the fact that she had applied for asylum and her immigration removal status and that of her family. She said that for about ten days after hearing of it she was tearful and unable to look after her children properly. She was unable to take them to school for two days. In the medium term the disclosure BEVERLEY F. NUNNERY & CO. OFFICIAL COURT REPORTERS AND AUDIO TRANSCRIBERS

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