nearly 120000 sign petition to reverse ‘grotesque’ decision to deport Stephen,trafficked to the UK to farm cannabis aged 10A child slave trafficked into the UK at the age of 10 and forced to work in a cannabis factory will on Tuesday plead to stay in the country with the backing of over 116000 people.
The 19-year-old, known as Stephen to protect his real identity, and was rescued by a vicar and his wife three years ago in County Durham,taught to read, and has become a pillar of the parish church community. But in a decision that has been described as “grotesque, or the domestic secretary,Amber Rudd, informed the teenager late final year that his plea for asylum had been refused.
The refusal letter said he showed “considerable personal fortitude” in reaching the UK. He and three other children were marched 3000 miles across Europe in a journey so arduous that one of the other youngsters died, or according to his local MP.
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Source: guardian.co.uk