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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Holly Bancroft

‘He deserves to be here’: War veteran Simon Weston backs our campaign to save Afghan pilot from deportation

PA

Falklands war veteran Simon Weston has warned no one will want to risk their lives to support British efforts abroad in future if an Afghan pilot is deported to Rwanda.

Mr Weston, who suffered 46 per cent burns when the British ship Sir Galahad was bombed and set alight in 1982, said he was “genuinely saddened and upset” by the Home Office’s threat to remove the Afghan war veteran, who served alongside British troops, to the east African country.

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