Movim • Afghan asylum seeker died in M1 crash ‘after social worker did not believe he was a child’

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Afghan asylum seeker died in M1 crash ‘after social worker did not believe he was a child’

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 12 November 2024

Amir Safi claimed he was 16 and was said to be ‘very quiet and withdrawn’ after he was believed to be an adult, inquest told

A young asylum seeker from Afghanistan who died after being run over on a motorway slip road was upset that a social worker did not believe he was a child, an inquest has heard.

Amir Safi, who claimed to be 16, was seen by a witness “ambling” up an M1 slip road in Nottinghamshire before he was found with multiple bone fractures and a brain injury on 28 April last year.