Lone child asylum seekers are at risk of poor mental health. Credit: Geert Vanden Wijngaert / AP/PA Images. All rights reserved.
A freezing cold November night in Calais. A terrified boy with burns on his face hid in a refrigerated lorry, exhausted and desperate. His only desire was to make it to England alive.
Twelve months earlier, in his homeland of Afghanistan, Gulwali Passarlay’s father, grandfather, and three other family members were killed by US soldiers, who suspected arms were stored in the family home. His uncle had a senior role in the Taliban, but his father was a well-respected doctor and his grandfather a shepherd.
