According to the Daily Mail, a 19 year old Nigerian girl
married to a British man attempted to take her life just days before
she was due to be deported to Nigeria. May Brown said she fled to the UK
three years ago after
witnessing her father's murder and being subjected to sexual abuse.
She settled in Dorset where she met and married Michael Brown in December 2012. May applied to stay in the UK and her application was rejected because UK Border Agency officials believed her marriage Michael was fake.
When May was informed that she would be deported today April 25th, she
took an overdose of prescription pills. Meaning she would rather die
than return to Nigeria. Ah! Nigeria is not that bad na. See the rest
of the report after the cut...
Her mother-in-law, Helen-Claire
Brown, found her collapsed on the bathroom floor on Monday morning with a
note to her husband saying she 'couldn't live without him'. The
teenager was rushed to the Dorset County Hospital in Dorchester where
she remains in a coma in intensive care.
May wrote: 'I am deeply sorry that I had
to go this way, without even saying goodbye. The UK immigration has
finally driven me insane. They've pushed me too far this time and I
can't take the pain any more. I
don't want a life or a future you won't be part of. I love you so much,
more than life itself and can't endure the agony of not being with you.
Please
forgive me for ending it this way. It's better to die with my dignity
than be subjected to torture and undignified death back in Nigeria.'
Before
she took the overdose, May had said she feared her abusers would kill
her if she returned to the African country because she witnessed her
father's death.
She said: 'If they send me back to
Nigeria they are signing my death warrant, they will cut my life short
because I will be killed. I have found peace with Michael, he gave me a
reason to live. I have got a family here and we don't claim any
benefits. Michael works and I am studying to become a barrister, we have
not harmed anybody.'
Mr
Brown, a former soldier who now works for a removals company, insisted
the couple's marriage was genuine and slammed the UK Border Agency for
its treatment of his wife.
He
said: 'May is the most beautiful, kindest, loving person I have ever
met. I can't live with myself if anything happens to her. She is the
woman I want to spend the rest of my life with and you can't pretend
something like that. All we want is a life together. But I'm so angry
that is being taken away from us.'
A Home Office spokesman said: 'We cannot comment in detail on this case while legal proceedings are ongoing.
'In cases where people are found to have no right to remain in the UK they should leave voluntarily or face removal.'
Source: Daily Mail
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