“The letter sent by email confirmed that the Home Office was investigating the status of the pupil, but did not rule out that he might return in the future and simply said that he was not at the school ‘at this time’.”
He might return. Of course he will return. Because to bar him would be “Islamophobic.” And that is the absolute worst thing one can be in Britain today. So this bearded father may continue to pose as a teenager if he so chooses.
“Furious parents remove children from school over claims ‘intimidating’ 30-year-old asylum seeker ‘father-of-two’ was posing as 15-year-old pupil due to take his mock maths GCSE today,” by Andrew Young, Mailonline, November 5, 2018:
Parents have had no undertaking to confirm that the 6ft 1in tall pupil will not be returning to Stoke High School in Ipswich, Suffolk
A growing number of angry parents are withdrawing their children from a school over claims that one of its pupils is really a man aged up to 30 years old.
Parents are said to be furious that they have had no undertaking to confirm that the 6ft 1in tall pupil will not be returning to Stoke High School in Ipswich, Suffolk.
The Year 11 pupil who claims to be aged 15 but looks far older had been due to take his mock GCSE maths exam today, but he has not been seen at the school since Thursday morning.
The school which is run by the Ormiston Academies Trust wrote to parents about the boy for the first time today to confirm that the Home Office was investigating his status.
The letter sent by email confirmed that the Home Office was investigating the status of the pupil, but did not rule out that he might return in the future and simply said that he was not at the school ‘at this time’.
The Home Office later said local social services should ‘assess’ the boy to determine his true age.
The pupil who is believed to be Iranian is thought to have arrived in the UK via Germany as an asylum seeker and told immigration authorities that he was aged 15.
But his classmates quickly became suspicious that he was much older and found his apparent Facebook page showing old pictures of him with a full beard, a hairy chest and swigging a beer.
A Home Office spokesperson today said: ‘The Home Office does not routinely comment on individual cases.
‘Where there are concerns that an individual may not be a minor as claimed, the Home Office’s policy is to ask social services to complete a full age assessment.’
Van driver Desmond Newby, 51, and wife Victoria, 32, said they were keeping their daughters Jamie, 15, and Alicia, 13, away from the school until they had an assurance that the pupil would not be going back.
Mr Newby said: ‘I want some answers from the school before I allow my daughters back, because at the moment we simply are not getting them.
‘I know he is not at the school at the moment, but we need to know that he is not returning, and we need an assurance that this is not going to happen again
‘He is clearly far older than the age he claims to be. All the kids realise that he is actually a man – so why did the school allow him to become a student….