Nigerian Woman Tries To Commit Suicide Days Before She Was Due To Be Deported From The UK

19 year old Nigerian girl married to a British man attempted to take her life just days before she was due to be deported to Nigeria. She fled to the UK three years ago after witnessing her father's murder and being subjected to sexual abuse. Settled in Dorset where she met and married Michael Brown in December 2012. May applied to stay in the UK and her application was rejected because UK Border Agency officials believed her marriage Michael was fake.

Informed that she would be deported today April 25th, she took an overdose of prescription pills. Meaning she would rather die than return to Nigeria.

Her mother-in-law, Helen-Claire Brown, found her collapsed on the bathroom floor on Monday morning with a note to her husband saying she 'couldn't live without him'. The teenager was rushed to the Dorset County Hospital in Dorchester where she remains in a coma in intensive care.

May wrote: 'I am deeply sorry that I had to go this way, without even saying goodbye. The UK immigration has finally driven me insane. They've pushed me too far this time and I can't take the pain any more. I don't want a life or a future you won't be part of. I love you so much, more than life itself and can't endure the agony of not being with you. Please forgive me for ending it this way. It's better to die with my dignity than be subjected to torture and undignified death back in Nigeria.'

Before she took the overdose, May had said she feared her abusers would kill her if she returned to the African country because she witnessed her father's death.

She said: 'If they send me back to Nigeria they are signing my death warrant, they will cut my life short because I will be killed. I have found peace with Michael, he gave me a reason to live. I have got a family here and we don't claim any benefits. Michael works and I am studying to become a barrister, we have not harmed anybody.'

Mr Brown, a former soldier who now works for a removals company, insisted the couple's marriage was genuine and slammed the UK Border Agency for its treatment of his wife.
He said: 'May is the most beautiful, kindest, loving person I have ever met. I can't live with myself if anything happens to her. She is the woman I want to spend the rest of my life with and you can't pretend something like that. All we want is a life together. But I'm so angry that is being taken away from us.'

A Home Office spokesman said: 'We cannot comment in detail on this case while legal proceedings are ongoing.
'In cases where people are found to have no right to remain in the UK they should leave voluntarily or face removal.

Wall Of Silence Over UK Man's Death In China

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The Chinese government has said it has "no information" about the death of British businessman Neil Heywood which has been linked to a political scandal engulfing the Communist Party.

Mr Heywood was found dead in a hotel room in the southern city of Chongqing last November.
Chinese police said he died of "excessive alcohol consumption".
His body was then cremated without an autopsy being performed.
But the British Embassy in Beijing has now asked the Chinese government to investigate after being made aware of "suspicions and rumours surrounding the death".
Sources have told Sky News that Mr Heywood was not a heavy drinker, was in good health, and was just 41 at the time of his death.
Mr Heywood had lived in China since the late 1990s, was married to a local woman with whom he had two children, and worked as a non-executive director for a Chinese Aston Martin dealer.
He also consulted for a strategic intelligence company that was founded by former MI6 officers.
Mr Heywood told several of his acquaintances that he enjoyed a close relationship with the family of Bo Xilai, a top Communist official who is now at the centre of a sensational political scandal.

We are aware of suspicions and rumours surrounding his death. After we were made aware of these suspicions we passed them on to the Chinese authorities and asked them to investigate further

Foreign Office

Mr Bo was sacked as Chongqing's Communist party chief earlier this month after his former police chief, Wang Lijun, sought refuge inside a US consulate.
It is thought he asked for political asylum and gave American diplomats evidence implicating Bo Xilai in criminal wrongdoing.
Mr Wang eventually left the consulate after a 24-hour standoff, during which Chinese police blocked off surrounding streets.
He is now being investigated by the Communist Party, while Bo Xilai's whereabouts are unknown.
The case has electrified Chinese websites, where speculation runs rife that Mr Bo had been plotting a coup against leaders in Beijing.

The city of Chongqing

There are other claims that his downfall was fuelled by the lavish lifestyle of his son, Bo Guagua, who was educated at Harrow and Oxford.
However new reports suggest that Mr Bo fell out with his chief of police after he raised suspicions that Mr Heywood may have been poisoned.
It is also claimed Mr Bo's wife may have been involved in a business dispute with Mr Heywood.
There is speculation on Chinese internet sites that both Mr Bo and his wife are now under house arrest, though this has not been confirmed by the Chinese authorities.
Asked whether Mr Heywood's death was connected with Mr Bo's downfall, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman said he had "no information on the matter".
He also declined to confirm whether or not the Chinese government had been asked to investigate the death by the UK Government.