Romanian migrant welcomed by Keith Vaz dies in car crash
A POSTEr BOy for romanian immigration into the UK, who was welcomed at Luton Airport by Keith Vaz before setting up his own business, has died in a car crash.
Victor Spirescu was one of the first romanians to come to Britain after immigration rules were relaxed in 2014.
The 34-year- old, originally from Pelisor, Transylvania, is believed to have died a mile from his home in Milton Keynes at about 4am on Monday.
The circumstances of the crash are as yet unknown.
His fiancée, Suzana Mates, confirmed the construction worker’s death yesterday evening.
Miss Mates, who lived in Buckinghamshire with Mr Spirescu, told MailOnline she felt ‘exhausted and devastated’ by the news. She said: ‘My future husband was in the car with a friend and there was a car accident on a straight road.
‘It is bizarre because Victor was the most confident and reliable driver and I don’t think he would make this mistake, a beginner’s mistake.
‘We still don’t know what happened, so many people are contacting me. I can’t cope, it is overwhelming.
‘He was so smart, so intelligent, he was the happiest person on earth, a wonderful human being and he said carpe diem - live life to the full.’
Mr Spirescu became a minor celebrity after landing at Luton Airport on January 1, 2014, with £40 in his pocket.
He was greeted by the thenHome Affairs Select Committee Chairman, who treated him to a Costa Coffee. Mr Spirescu said he had learned English by watching films and the television channel MTV, and said he was ‘excited’ to start work.
He said he earned around £9 a day as a builder in romania and hoped to get paid that much for an hour’s work in Britain.
Mr Spirescu told reporters he was ‘not here to rob your country’, adding ‘I come here to work because I love to work.’
After arriving he took a job washing cars in an Aldi car park in Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, but resigned after just one day, eventually setting up an air conditioning company.
A year after starting a new life in London, he said things were tough and he would not recommend it to his countrymen. ‘I don’t tell them to come here. It is very hard,’ he said. ‘It is hard work to grow in this country, to save money. It is only if you have some luck.’ He also noted that British women are different from their romanian counterparts. In an interview with the Mail, Mr Spirescu said: ‘People are so loud in Britain. I go on the Tube and you get these girls talking. Wow! The noise they make! ‘And girls, they drink so much here. On a Friday night, the girls are with romania. English of ‘Don’t romania, so that. drunk girls. get you I the me am I and don’t miss traditions. wrong, scared I don’t the see culture British that of agree the in girls good differently are genes. beautiful, to romanian But they they behave girls.’ have later He met when Mr he Vaz was several working years near the MI6 building in London and walking to Westminster tube. Miss Mates recalled their chat saying: ‘Keith said “Victor, Victor, it’s so nice to see you” and he invited him to the houses of parliament for tea one day.’
‘A wonderful human being’