My Life: Darren, 16

15 March 2005 1 min read

I arrived in Glasgow early in 2004, just after my sixteenth birthday. After bad legal advice I gave immigration officers a date of birth that made me over 18. Although I later told removal staff this was not true, no-one believed me.

I stayed in Dungavel about two weeks. One early morning they woke me up. They said I was going. They put us in a van. They told me the name of the place where we were going but I didn't know the name. The van went from early morning to 11 at night. I needed a pee but they said no, can't stop. They stopped the van to change drivers, but not to let us pee. We peed in the bottle. We were six in the van. We arrived at night. They took us to one place, but they couldn't open the gate, so we went off again to Oakington.

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