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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Ros Wynne Jones

'Our parents thought a small boat was safer than a warzone so we fled Albania for the UK'

Dritan Kastrati was just 11 years old when he was smuggled across Europe from his home on the ­Kosovan- ­Albanian border.

He nearly died three times. Once when a packed dinghy capsized in raging seas, and once when he had to cling for hours to the leather jacket of a man he had never met while ­travelling on a second boat.

He threw up on his fellow passengers.

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