Could His Harrowing Life Experiences Have Aged Him...

[sandyRoe]

...prematurely?
And now, to top it all, they're saying he's in his early 30s.
Life can be cruel.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/11/23/home-office-concludes-teenage-asylum-seeker-school-pupil-fact/

[Spicerack]

Probably right, Sandy. The xenophobes should leave the young shaver alone.

[-Talbot-]

Well knock me down with a feather duster.

[SIRandyraven]

I feel I wanted to a job where I mix with children , I would have to go through the a mountain of checks first, yet the liberal idiots accept this blokes work he is 15 and place him in school. Even the school kids were able to work it out lol.
Terrible state of affairs where parents were removing children from the school to protect them where the school had failed them.
30 years old ?
Want asylum ?
Free education?
Like little girls ?
Go to England and tell them your 12 years old, they take your word for it.

[mushroom25]

maybe he self identifies as a teenager - the authorities are dutybound to honour a self identification......

[emmie]

this story came up before a while ago, i dont recall who posted it, but there was little sympathy overall.

[Mamyalynne]

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1630427.html

[sandyRoe]

I hadn't thought of self identifying.
But wasn't there an older man who recently identified as being some 20 years younger than he actually is? He thought this would make him more successful with women.

[Mamyalynne]

There was.

[webbo3]

Hardship will age adults, not children. children have delayed development, and not advanced development, because of hardship.

[fcc]

he looks older than my granddad.

[Mamyalynne]

How old is your Granddad?

We can't gauge it otherwise.

[Baldric]

What an absolute joke our system is.

[sandyRoe]

I suppose a grandad could be aged in his late 20s. But the grandchild of such a precocious chap would hardly be old enough to be posting on AB at this time of night.

[fcc]

well he's not school age.

[Mamyalynne]

Your Granddad. well he wouldn't be.

[Hopkirk]

Harrowing life experiences, Sandy?

He's not from a war torn country. He's an economic migrant.