Daily Mail

Tragedy of translator ordered out of Britain

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AN interprete­r who worked for British troops in Afghanista­n killed himself in 2016 after being told he did not qualify for asylum in the UK and would be deported.

Nangyalai Dawoodzai, 29, was said to have been ‘deeply depressed’ about the threat of being thrown out of the country despite working with British forces in Helmand.

Fellow interprete­rs said he had spoken of suicide in the weeks leading up to his death in April 2016. He hanged himself at a friend’s flat in West Bromwich. Mr Dawoodzai had paid people smugglers to reach the UK after receiving Taliban death threats.

But he was told he could not stay in Britain because he had been fingerprin­ted in Italy and had to claim asylum there. It is believed he did not qualify for the ‘relocation scheme’ because of its strict rules about working for the British in December 2012 and serving for 12 months in Helmand.

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