His asylum claim was refused. An initial screening interview at the Port of Dover was conducted through a telephone interpreter just hours after he entered the country.
"I could not understand all of the questions. I was so tired and sleepless and I was just saying things to the questions and wanted some rest, to go to sleep somewhere," he explains.
"The information and questions I was asked, I gave them all the right information, but some of them were not put as I told them."
Discrepancies between this first interview and Child E’s subsequent interviews were used to challenge his asylum claim, and spelling mistakes made by the telephone interpreter led to the assertion that Child E was lying about where he came from.
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