YOUNG MOTHER MAKES TEARFUL PLEA TO STAY IN CANADA

A young mother facing deportation to the U.K. after spending much of her life in Canada issued a plea Thursday to be allowed to stay in the country she considers home, a day before her strange saga goes before a hearing that may determine her fate. Propped up in a hospital bed and groggy from medication, Fliss Cramman said she is terrified of being forced to return to England, where she was born but left at the age of eight when her parents moved to Ontario. “I’m just so scared to go back — I don’t know anybody, I don’t know anything,” she said through tears. “If I leave here, I’m leaving my heart behind big time. This is my homeland.” The 33-year-old mother of four young daughters, who were all born in Ontario, only became aware that she was not a Canadian citizen following a recent drug conviction and incarceration.