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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Anahita Hossein-Pour

SHOCKING: Asylum seeker threatened with death to pilot boat court told - What They Never Told You

PA Wire

An asylum seeker who travelled in a dinghy in the English Channel where four people died said he was “threatened with death” to pilot the boat, a court has heard.

Ibrahima Bah, from Senegal, said in a statement that he was trying to come to the UK to claim asylum when smugglers asked if he could pilot the boat, and if so, he could travel for free.

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