Farah case highlights fate of less famous victims of trafficking

Foster carer John Stokes with Samet, who was trafficked to the UK from Albania aged 15 and had his asylum claim refused. Photograph: Handout

An 18th birthday is normally a milestone to be celebrated but for a teenager called Samet it marked the unravelling of the life he had built in Britain.

After his father forced him to beg on the streets in Albania at 11, Samet was trafficked to Belgium and then smuggled to Britain in a lorry at 15. He was taken into care in Bristol and just as adulthood approached, his asylum claim was refused.