Officials refused Seyfu Jamaal’s asylum claim after he had waited more than three and a half years
A runner from Ethiopia who dreams of representing Team GB is facing deportation back to his home country even though a state of emergency has been declared there.
Seyfu Jamaal, 21, arrived in the UK aged 17 after travelling here in the back of a lorry and claimed asylum. The Home Office accepts he was persecuted and trafficked before he arrived in the UK. But officials refused his asylum claim in May of this year after keeping him waiting for more than three and a half years for a decision, saying it would be safe for him to return home.
