They Will Kill Me for Sure

led from the dock one official thought that Usher had been given bail, and he took his chance to escape.

He says that for much of the past three weeks he has lived in the bush, scavenging for food, until a school friend took him in. “If I am captured again they will kill me for sure,” he said. “I believe Tony Blair and his ministers cannot know what is happening here or they would not send people back. My only hope now is to somehow get across the border.”