It's a beautiful Friday evening in Manchester city centre and the bars and pubs are overflowing with people enjoying the warm weather.
But just yards from the sun-drenched beer gardens, others are having their lives turned upside down. In the upstairs room of a Chinese restaurant, a woman is being interrogated by a Home Office immigration officer.
Across the hallway, a group of young women are belting out karaoke songs. After a short while, the woman is led out of the restaurant and bundled into the back of a police van.
As the drama unfolds, someone dressed in drag watches on from a smoking area across the road. READ MORE: She kept needing the toilet but didn't think anything of it...
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