Abdul Rahman Haroun,Sudanese Migrant who walked 31 miles through the Channel Tunnel to Britain

 

Abdul Rahman Haroun will now be given state-funded accommodation in a B&B, flat or house and is entitled to a weekly allowance of £36.95.He
will also be allowed free NHS healthcare, prescriptions, dental care and eyesight tests.

MPs Monday January 04,2016 condemned a decision to grant asylum to a Sudanese Migrant who walked 31 miles through the Channel Tunnel to Britain.

Giving Abdul Rahman Haroun refugee status sent the wrong message to others desperate to enter the country, they said.

Abdul Rahman Haroun was arrested on August 4 – less than a mile from the tunnel’s exit in Folkestone, Kent. 

The Sudanese national, who had previously pleaded not guilty to a charge of ‘obstructing an engine or a carriage using a railway’, appeared in court yesterday via a video link from Elmley Prison.

Philip Bennetts QC, prosecuting, told Canterbury Crown Court in Kent that Haroun had been granted asylum, adding: ‘We would ask for 14 days to consider the impact of that.’

Judge Adele Williams told Haroun through an interpreter: ‘Now that you have been granted asylum to remain in the United Kingdom, the prosecution in this case just need 14 days to consider whether to proceed with this prosecution against you.’

Kate Thorne, defending, said: ‘Importantly for Mr Haroun is that the prosecution has now indicated that they will not oppose bail.’ 

The court was told that Haroun would be bailed to an address which was not revealed.

Abdul Rahman Haroun 'sperilous journey had taken 11 hours, and he would have been just a few feet from trains travelling at 100mph.