A student nurse who carried the Queen’s baton at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games and served in the Scottish youth parliament is facing deportation.

Denzel Darku, 23, arrived in Britain from Ghana nine years ago. The Home Office is attempting to remove him as it claims that he has not been able to show he is dependent on his father, who also lives in Scotland and is a European citizen, since he turned 21.

Mr Darku, a former Paisley Grammar School pupil, said that he has had to drop out of his degree at the University of Stirling because of his visa issues and to fight the deportation ruling.

Nicola Sturgeon said that the situation was a disgrace and described the student as a credit to