Refugee straps himself beneath British courier’s van to get into UK after loosing parents

A refugee young boy was found strapped beneath a British courier’s van in a desperate attempt to leave war-torn Dafur for UK.

The van’s driver who said he pulled over at the Ibis Hotel Tunnel Sous la Manche, near Calais border on January 14 while on his way to Paris, said he started hearing a loud bang around 20 miles into the journey the next day. But ignored it at first, thinking it was the goods he was carrying.

“About 25 miles later the banging happened again but it was so loud I thought somebody was in the back of the van.

“I s*** myself. I heard bang, bang, bang, like someone was smashing in the back near my head. I absolutely floored it at 90mph and pulled in at the next petrol station.

‘”I got out and saw this kid standing near the back door – he was shivering and scared. ‘I couldn’t believe it. He went to run off but I said “I’m not going to do anything”. He was absolutely in shock. He was shaking,” the British driver told Metro;

However, the boy said he is 18 years old, the driver believes the Sudanese kid who lost his family to the crisis in Dafur region of Sudan is 15.

The courier driver further revealed that the refugee boy simply known as Saudi said he sat under his van for hours while it was parked in the hotel’s car park, after seeing the UK registration plate.

Further speaking to Metro, the driver whose name is Kyle added that the young boy told him that the French police had already beaten him up, ‘there is quite a lot of violence in Calais,’ Kyle said.

Kyle has been an European courier for 12 years.

“I could smell smoke on him, then he said he’d been lighting fires every night because he’d been sleeping rough in the woods.

“He didn’t know where he was but said he’d crossed over at Libya, where he lost his passport. At that point he told me both his parents were dead.

“I was just so shocked. What can you say to that? He said his country is finished after the civil war so he had to leave.’

He later dropped Saudi in the centre of Calais, gave him €100 and left his contact details.

The driver further expressed that: “I told him I couldn’t take him to England and wished him all the best.”

Checking in on the Sudanese kid weeks later via Facebook, saying ‘me now in UK thank you for your help I don’t forget you [sic],’ the courier was happy to learn that Saudi is now staying in a refugee hostel in Hayes, Hillingdon, west London.