‘I don’t have a life’: man sent to France in ‘one in, one out’ refugee scheme tells of return to UK

The asylum seeker, who arrived back in the UK on a lorry, says he rarely leaves the room where a friend has offered him shelter. Photograph: Edward George/Alamy (posed by model)

An asylum seeker sent from the UK back to France under the “one in, one out” scheme has covertly returned to Britain and is now in hiding, the Guardian has learned.

In the first interview with a one in, one out returnee living under the radar in the UK, the man told the Guardian his situation was “desperate”.