A 23-year-old Nigerian asylum seeker has made an attempt on his own life in an Essex hotel car park after hearing he was due to be transferred on to the Bibby Stockhom barge, the UK Guardian reported on Sunday, October 29, 2023. Bibby Stockhom is an engineless barge that is used for an accommodation and docked in the port of Portland, Dorset. Between 1994 and 1998, it was used for the homeless in Hamburg, Germany. And in 2005, …
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Police charged a 33-year-old asylum seeker with the r3pe of a woman in Skegness, Lincolnshire, 40 days after arriving in the UK after crossing the Channel in a dinghy. The victim says she was dragged into bushes by a stranger and attacked, The Sun reports. A Lincolnshire Police spokesman said: ‘Officers were called to the Tower Gardens area of Skegness just after 10.40pm on Friday, June 9 to a report of a sexual assault.’ At a …
About 1,089 Nigerian asylum seekers who arrived Netherlands between last year and January this year are reportedly missing, raising serious concern in the country. The National Research Council (NRC) Handelsblad which collaborated with Lost in Europe in its June 2020 report, said the Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers (COA) identified a significant number of the cases. It was further learnt that there’s been a upsurge in the number of Nigerians seeking asylum in The Netherlands, with 2,461 persons recorded …