Young Afghan asylum seeker run over on M1 ‘upset’ after being ruled an adult

Amir Safi, photographed in the months before he died. The court heard from his roommate that after Amir was disbelieved ‘he was very low and would not talk. I thought he seemed hopeless and helpless’ Photograph: Supplied

A young asylum seeker from Afghanistan who died after being run over on a motorway slip road was upset that a social worker did not believe he was a child, an inquest has heard.

Amir Safi, who said he was 16, was seen by a witness “ambling” up an M1 slip road in Nottinghamshire before he was found with multiple bone fractures and a brain injury on 28 April last year.