Iraqi refugee wins legal battle to prove he was a child when he arrived in UK

Kurd was treated as an adult by Home Office and Greenwich council when he arrived undocumented three years ago A child refugee who fled Iraq has won a three-year legal battle to prove he was only 16 when he arrived undocumented in the UK, not eight to 10 years older, as British officials claimed, citing his facial hair and broad shoulders.The Kurd, now 19, fled Iraq with his family in 2021 after death threats from Shia militia, who came into his home area around Kirkuk after the fall of Islamic