Sensitive paperwork to deport foreign criminals held at Bullingdon Prison has been sent to a Bicester home by mistake.

Roger Booker of Lawrence Way, has received almost 20 deportation orders on his home fax over the last two years even though he has repeatedly told the Immigration Service and the prison about the error.

The documentation should have gone to the prison's immigration clerk so the notice could be served on the foreign prisoner.

The blunder has come to light following revelations that the Home Office, which runs both the prison and immigration systems, released 1,019 foreign criminals instead of considering them for deportation.

Since then the department has come in for severe criticism, although a spokesman for the Home Office said the faxes sent to Mr Booker were not part of the problem.

But Mr Booker, 65, said: "It is no wonder the whole department is in such a shambles that they can send stuff like this to me."

He added: "I have phoned the Home Office and Bullingdon to get it stopped, but it is still happening.

"It doesn't seem to matter what I do or who I speak to, they just keep on coming. I have spoken to all of them so many times and all it is doing is using my phone bill and my fax paper and my ink."

Some of the papers he has received have contained detailed information, including criminal records.

Mr Booker, a self-employed builder, said: "Their attitude was fairly matter-of-fact and they have just told me to tear it up and they will sort it out. I have pointed out that the people being deported wouldn't want me to know all these details."

A spokesman for the Home Office played down the mistake and said: "A small number of faxes were sent to the wrong number and that has now been rectified."

He said that, although it was regrettable, the error had not affected the processing of any of the cases involved.

Christine Mercer, deputy governor of HMP Bullingdon, said she had not been aware of the problem, but suggested it was a simple case of misdialling or a fault on the line.

She added: "Obviously, our procedures are fairly tight and if we are missing any documents we would chase it up."

But Tony Baldry, the Conservative MP for Banbury and Bicester, believes the blunder is a real cause for concern.

He said: "This is a completely crazy situation and actually very frightening in that the Home Office could have been sending Bullingdon really sensitive information and it ends up in anyone's fax machine in the middle of Bicester.

"It's disturbing, and what's really disturbing is the person takes the care and trouble to telephone the Home Office and let them know and they don't do anything about it.

"It is demonstration of a Government department in a state of collapse."