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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Tom Parry

Child refugee survived harrowing journey across 20 countries to become UK bank manager

When Nilany Vasantharasan clambered through the back of a lorry tarpaulin as a child refugee, she was nearly starving.

Nilany, eight, her sister, seven, and brother, eleven, had fled the war in Sri Lanka two years before with their mother, and had been in the clutches of a secretive people trafficking operation ever since.

Having taken on a huge debt in order to escape, the despairing family had just £20 left.

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