Mohamed Bangoura: how the six-year-old became stranded in Belgium

Sheffield schoolboy was visiting friends in Brussels when his UK passport was revoked by Foreign Office

Mohamed Bangoura, Brussels
Mohamed Bangoura was stopped from boarding a flight home
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A six-year-old boy who was left stranded in Belgium for two weeks after being refused re-entry to the UK has been allowed to return home to his mother.

Mohamed Bangoura, from Sheffield, was stopped from boarding a flight home when his passport was revoked after a visit to family friends in Brussels during the summer holidays.

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