The Mancunian Way: ‘I just don’t want him to be forgotten’
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Diane Burke was at work when she received a phone call from a Ukrainian police officer who, in broken English, repeated the phrase ‘Daniel Burke is missing’ over and over. “I was hysterical,” she told me last week, as we spoke about her son, who has now been missing in the war-torn country for more than a month.
I met Daniel in 2020. He had just been released from HMP Wandsworth after prosecutors suddenly dropped terror charges against him.
He had been arrested after returning from Syria where he had fought Islamic State with Kurdish militia group the YPG - a Western ally against IS.
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