Hammersmith and Fulham Law Centre wins asylum for former child slave
Hammersmith and Fulham Law Centre has won asylum for a former child slave - and promising young footballer - who was told his case was hopeless.
17-year-old Mathias Agebto, from Ivory Coast, was sold as a slave at the age of eight. He was refused asylum last year and his lawyer gave up on his case. However, Hammersmith and Fulham Law Centre took up his cause and won him asylum in April 2010.
This is the first success from a new project at the Law Centre which fights for child asylum seekers who no other legal practice is able to help. Read coverage in the Law Gazette.
Mathias hopes to become a professional footballer. He told the Fulham and Hammersmith Chronicle: “I play for Croydon Athletic and I’m studying for a BTEC in sport. I never saw myself going to college and having a good education - I never thought this would happen.”
Published: Tue 6 Jul, 2010
