Mohamed Bangoura, 6, Returns To Uk After Being Left 'Stateless' In Belgium huffingtonpost.co.uk

A six-year-old boy has returned to Britain after he was reportedly left “stateless and stuck” for two weeks in Belgium. Mohamed Bangoura, who was born in Leeds, was stopped from boarding a flight home after visiting family friends in Brussels.

He was finally returned to the UK and reunited with his mother Hawa Keita on Monday after the Home Office issued him with an emergency travel document. MEP Catherine Bearder and MP Sir Ed Davey wrote a joint letter to Home Secretary Sajid Javid last week calling for the boy’s return.

They said he had been due to start school in Sheffield on Monday but his passport was rejected by Belgian authorities on August 27. The Home Office said it sent a letter to Ms Keita, who is from Guinea, in March telling her Mohamed’s passport had been revoked. The joint letter sent by Ms Bearder and Sir Ed said Ms Keita “insists she never received a registered letter by courier or by email”.