Channel–boat migrant Hassan, who hails from Egypt, feels cheated by England. He complains his free Home Office house in Plymouth is overcrowded and says the British don’t give him enough pocket money for beer, pizza suppers or his favourite cigarettes, which cost nearly £20 a packet.
Last week, the disgruntled 31–year–old ran away from his home in Devon to the ferry port of Dover in Kent, from where he happily returned to France, hidden by smugglers in the back of a lorry.
We spoke as he hid in bushes near the British port before finally leaving in the small hours of Wednesday
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