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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Robert Rowlands & Chiara Fiorillo

Refugee who arrived on dinghy aged 4 is crowned beauty queen with powerful message for women

A woman who fled Kosovo with her family when she was three and found a new life in Britain has said she considered taking her own life due to bullying at school - but she remained strong and is now a beauty queen.

Franceska Murati, 27, was born in Kosovo but her family escaped to the UK amid bloody wars, and settled in Bermondsey, south London.

She said that at the age of 12 she began experiencing bullying, which continued for most of her school years.

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