Asylum seeker who paid thousands to cross Channel was found dead in Manchester hotel room
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manchestereveningnews.co.ukaccording to The Guardian. The paper reports that Mr Alhabib travelled on the small boat with 15 other people from Yemen, Syria and Iran.One Yemeni asylum seeker who travelled with Mr Alhabib told the Guardian they had been charged €2,000 or €3,000 to be smuggled across the water.They described the journey as ‘terrifying’. “Every minute of it we felt we were hovering between life and death and could drown at any time,” they told the paper.“All of us on these journeys, we have lost our country, lost our family, lost our future.
When we got into the boat in Calais we felt the sea was the only place left for us to go.”The UK has a statutory obligation to provide destitute asylum seekers with temporary accommodation, transport and financial.
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