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  'I came to Britain on a false passport'
Updated 22 April 2002, 11.38
Eric
Eric, 16, came to England from the Congo in Africa after his father was killed.

"They came to my house with seven men, I think it was three o'clock in the morning.

They were looking for my father and my mother. They came to my bedroom, then went to my father's bedroom, and one man was fighting my father.

I saw my father killed

When they killed my father I was very scared. I had never seen anything like that before in my life.

I ran away. The church helped me and brought me to London from my home in the Congo.

The man from the church dropped me in London. I didn't know what to do, I was feeling sick at the time.

I prefer it here

Eric's journey
Eric's journey
I got help from a special centre for refugees - and I'm now studying English at school.

I prefer this country, I can do more, have a good life.

Sometimes I meet up with English people. We talk, go out, play football, and go to the cinema.

I've applied to stay here but I don't know if I can yet."

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