Campaigners plan to protest outside a controversial Oxfordshire detention centre after the latest detainee riot.

Protesters will call on Saturday for Campsfield House Immigration Detention Centre in Kidlington to be closed following last week's violent disturbance.

Detainees smashed lights and security cameras, flooded the centre's toilets and showers and tried to set fire to blankets during the riot.

Campaigners believe the forced removal of African-born Davis Osagie Odiase, which they claim sparked the riot, was against Home Office rules.

They said Mr Odiase, who is believed to be awaiting deportation in Colnbrook Immigration Removal Centre near Heathrow, was seeking legal advice against the decision because he had an appeal case pending.

Bob Hughes, spokesman for the Campaign to Close Campsfield, said: "Under Home Office rules, asylum applicants may only be removed from the country if their application and any appeals have been rejected.

"But it turns out that Odiase is scheduled to appeal his case at the High Court on March 18. So not only the removal attempt last week, but also his three-month detention in Campsfield, was illegal."

Members of the Campaign to Close Campsfield will demonstrate outside the centre in Langford Lane between noon and 2pm.

Mr Hughes added Mr Odiase was taken to Colnbrook after the flight he was due to take to his native Benin was cancelled.

Fellow campaigner Gill Baden, of detainee-support organisation Bail for Immigration Detainees, said Mr Odiase could have a case for legal action against the Home Office.

Calm has now been restored at Campsfield and 12 inmates have been been moved to other centres.

A Home Office spokesman said she could not comment on individuals' cases for deportation, nor on any possible future legal action against the Home Office.

But she said: "Immigration rules state that we would not seek to remove someone with an outstanding appeal."