The story begins with Rob Leary, a former military instructor in Leeds, and a carpet trader.
The image of Alan Kurdi , a Syrian child drowned in the Mediterranean in September 2015, rocked the world.
The image of the body of a well-dressed healthy baby could not be ignored amidst all the other crumbs coming from the sea. Rob couldn't get this picture out of his mind.
He said, 'I tried to imagine how the last two minutes would be in the senses of this child's life.'
'While huddled in the sea, his parents might have wondered where he was? It is very difficult to imagine. '
Rob was living a prosperous life with his wife and children in the British city of Leeds, but his childhood was spent away from his parents at a childcare center.
After seeing this picture, Rob decided that he would use the money he had won at a TV game show to help refugees.
In the autumn of 2015, he departed for his wagon to a famous refugee camp in the French coastal town of Calle. At the time, some 6,000 people from 25 countries were living in tents and were trying to reach Britain in the last leg of their perilous journey.
Initially, Rob intended to spend a few days there, but he went there several times.
In the worst case scenario, a team of volunteers at the camp were trying to make life easier for people. The six-foot-two-inch conservative rab was the most prominent of them. They always had a hat on their head that they wore during a TV game show when they won prizes. This hat became their identity.
There he met Reza and his younger daughter Bro. Raza narrated his story to Rob in broken English. Raza said he escaped from the Taliban and fled Afghanistan, and he also showed Rob a paper that he believed was a death threat from the Taliban.
Raza escaped, but according to him his wife was not so lucky. She thought maybe she was dead.
Raza said his younger son was with his relatives. Raza said that all she wants now is to come to the UK to give her daughter a life that she can forget about her past.
They were living in a small tent in the middle of the trees where everything, including their beds and blankets, was drenched in the rain. They also found it difficult to keep themselves warm in the clothes they received from charities. The odor was spread everywhere because of the humidity.
Impressed by their story, Rob decided to smuggle Raza and his daughter to Britain. Raza tells Rob that Leeds has relatives who can take care of him.
It was probably a moment of madness, but Rob decided to help Raza. She was sympathetic to her daughter, who kept running back and forth to play with her.
He was also impressed by Reza's stories of how the Taliban targeted women and girls. He knew how far he could go to protect his daughters. His intention was the same, but what he did was very strange.
The plan was that he would hide Raza and his daughter in his wagon. One night, they both picked up Raza's sleeping daughter near the fire and hung him in a specific place to sleep in the wagon. But making space for Reza was difficult.
Rob decides to abandon the plan, but Raza insists that he take his daughter and that he will try to reach the UK by giving money to human smugglers.
He kissed Little Barrow affectionately and told Rob that his relatives in Leeds would come and take his daughter.
But the plan was thwarted by dogs preventing smuggling along the French border. Rob's search for a wagon also found two Africans lurking in it. Rob had no idea how he got into the wagon.
French officials trusted Rob's words, but he also had to tell them about Bro, who was sleeping and whom he had not yet seen.
Rob said that he realized long ago that he should not have come to terms with Reza. He was arrested and could now be sentenced to five years for human trafficking.
I was one of the many journalists who were present at the Bolton court at the time of Robb's trial. Reza came to the court with Rob and tried to take responsibility for the entire incident, saying that Rob had no idea about the plan.
Due to the media's attention and sympathy for Rob, the court may have shown tenderness and sentenced Rob to a fine of carrying an underage child in a car with a seat belt and suspended the sentence.
In a way, it was not a complete success. Rob came out as a simple iron man. His wife was so angry with him that he did not consider it necessary to consult her before taking such a big step. She separated from them and took the children along. His absence also affected his carpet business.
Raza and Bro returned to camp and Rob returned to the UK where he talked about his experiences in my radio program.
Rob contacted me again a few months later when French authorities took steps to end the black camp.
Reza's phone was not receiving a response and Rob was worried for her. We headed to Paris, where there were refugee camps in different parts of the city. We talked to a lot of people there but nothing was known about Raza and Buru.
The story might have ended here, but then there were two things that revived it. Rob received a script from a Hollywood director who came to visit him after his arrest. The script was about the friendship of Reza and Rob, two fathers. But it was necessary for Reza and Bro to meet.
And there was another email that changed the whole story of the father's daughter. I was in Leeds to visit my father when this email appeared on my phone.
By then Rob had received hundreds of messages about the girl he had tried to save. I thought it was a similar message.
But this email was from a volunteer working with refugees from Denmark. This volunteer named Martin Westergaard wrote about a woman named Goli, who according to Raza's mother said that, contrary to Raza's claims, she did not die in Afghanistan but was alive and looking for her daughter.
The volunteer wrote in his email, 'You have probably met hundreds of refugees and may not have any contact with you. But I promised the bullet that I would ask you, 'How is Bro, right?'
According to the bullet, Raza did not flee from the Taliban in Afghanistan, he was not a miserable father, he claimed, nor was he a political refugee.
Raza was born in Afghanistan but moved to Iran in childhood where he lived with his two daughters and Goli. He left for Britain to leave his wife and newborn baby and take Bro, in search of a new life.
If the bullet was true, Rob had put all his money, marriage, family life, and independence at stake to help a man who lied to him.
We met the bullet in a dilapidated school in Denmark, where refugee families were housed. We were heading to the school where a baby girl came in and wrapped my legs around her. When I looked down, it looked like a bro. That was a problem for Bro.
The blonde was a beautiful young woman with long wavy skirts and a t-shirt dressed in long sleeves. He said he enrolled in a compulsory course before his degree. He said he has endured a lot to reach this stage.
He met us with his daughter Raina and then told us how Raza had betrayed her. The bullet said that Raza also intended to get there after seeing that his relatives in the UK had become rich.
He said that Raza's relatives used to send very valuable gifts from Britain and that Raza's brother is also based in the UK and when he came to Iran to visit them, he brought valuables such as an iPhone and a laptop.
According to the bullet, his brother told Reza: 'Leave your wife, if you want to come, I'll arrange.'
The bullet said that they did not hear much about women. He said that as an Afghan refugee in Iran, his life was in accordance with traditional values and he did not even have his own account. 'I had no freedom at home, I was very innocent and I felt I could do nothing.'
Raza contacted her only once after she disappeared. Speaking to a bad telephone line, he only said he was in Turkey with Bro.
"I told him to come back, don't destroy everything." According to the bullet, Raza replied, "I can't live this life in Iran, I just want to go somewhere else." He said he took Bro with him so that he could find refuge.
Raza promised the bullet that he would call her and her children after they were set out. The bullet said he made no contact after that. She started living with Reza's family who had a large house, but the bullet and her baby were given a small room. The bullet began to suspect Raza's family as well.
'I could hear Raza call his mom and sister but he used to call me and not talk on the phone. He didn't even talk to me about it. I heard Raza talking to Bro, and I realized something was wrong. '
As a woman whose husband had left her, the location of the pill had diminished in the eyes of Reza's family. He began to doubt that they would take him out of the house one day and not even snatch the rain from him.
After a few months, his relatives in the bullet made some money to arrange for him to go to Europe. For a single woman with a baby, it was a very dangerous journey. The bullet said she travelled mostly at night and was often on foot.
Her first destination was to reach Turkey at the top of the mountains where her sister and mother lived. "It was a very difficult journey in the severe cold." She said she was alone and that human smugglers could do anything with her.
When she reached her mother in Turkey, she had travelled more than a thousand miles in search of her daughter. Her mother stopped her to rest for a few days, but she was reluctant to move.
He gave money for human smugglers on a small boat from Turkey to Greece. The bullet was very frightening. He was asked to board a boat full of strangers, and a tube was also seized for swimming in the boat. But his daughter was not given anything for rain.
The boat departed. He grabbed the rain and prayed. It was raining and raining along the way. In the darkness, I could see the lights on the Greek coast. At that moment the boat started to sink into some people and the boat began to sink. They had reached the shore and the water was not deep, but it missed the rain.
The bullet with flowing tears tells it was the scariest moment of his life. Fortunately, another refugee was caught in the rain and was loudly asking 'whose baby is this?'
Hiding in Greece on bullets and buses passed through Serbia, Hungary, Austria and Germany. She was frightened and cold and hungry. He didn't even realize where he was.
Traveling north, she became part of another group of refugees, but her paths were cut off in Denmark. The bullet had to stop its journey here because the rain had become very ill.
The bullet was put into a refugee camp and was told that he would have to apply for asylum in Denmark, the first safe country he had stayed on during his travels. Asylum in Denmark is not easy and the approval rate is only 10%.
The bullet was requested because he had documented evidence of Bro's disappearance. She went to Denmark with a translator to help the police, but said that because the crime happened in Iran, they couldn't do anything about it.
Several months passed. Then one day the translator caught sight of the BBC news about a black refugee camp in France and he saw a picture of Bro in it. He immediately recognized Bro and called the bullet.
That's how we got to the bullet. A complete coincidence that put us in search of Raza and trying to get him shot and bro.
Goli's documents seemed true to his story, but we could not understand his story without meeting Reza, and we thought he might not even want us to reach it.
The bullet sent the Red Cross news about Rob Lowry's case. The Red Cross confirmed Raza and Bro's presence in the bar and asked him to send a photo of himself and Bro, but also said that they would only show Bro's photo with Raza's permission.
The bullet waited but didn't know anything else. And then one day he received a very important letter from the Red Cross stating that Raza and Brough had entered the UK illegally, but no one knows their whereabouts.
We tried to find Raza and Bro with the information we received from Raza's cousins and other relatives, but to no avail. Then we turned to social media.
Rob has been a huge follower on social media since his arrest in Black. He posted a message on Facebook named Reza.
The message also mentioned the possibility of a Hollywood movie and said that Raza could gain thousands of pounds from it.
Then we got a message from a man who called himself a relative of Raza and was asking about money. We gave him a little more information. A few hours later Rob received a message from an unusual phone number. Rob replied immediately.
After a few seconds the answer came, 'We should talk.' Why didn't Rob answer? The text message was exchanged and the reply came, 'See you in the UK.'
When asked about Rob, she said she was not in the UK. Rob wrote to him that if he didn't get it, he couldn't help it. After a few minutes of silence, the answer came that he did not need help.
We wanted to know if the bullet story was true then why he lied to Rob and why he left Iran with his daughter. We knew that if he was wrong, he could take steps to get away from us, something that could be harmful to him and his daughter.
We decided to go some other way and contacted a lawyer, Anne Marie Hutchinson, who said she would contact the Interior Ministry for our help and tell them all the names that the bullet had agreed to use. can do. The bullet had a series of ID cards made in Iran that he handed over to a lawyer.
Anne was the head of the Reunite International Child Abduction Center, a parent organization for missing children founded by the My Government Fund. She was upset that a large number of men who came to Europe without a wife were sheltered. They were concerned that many men might have used children as passports to enter Europe.
After several weeks of trying, we got a message from them that their efforts were unsuccessful. In the meantime, texts from an unknown number started again. Raza wished to meet but demanded that it should be in a shopping center outside the city and that too at night. He gave an address in Scotland.
We did not find the tone right. We insisted on meeting Raza at the time of day. Good consensus was reached and the meeting was settled.
We decided to visit Starbucks. Reza was nervous and looking inside the glass. He was bent over the baseball cap. He made a couple of rounds, then entered with a smile and went straight to Rab.
Raza said he was looking for a place to live in Leeds and had been granted permission to reside in the United Kingdom. In his own words, he described the immigration authorities as "cutting down details".
Then we saw a little girl standing at a distance. A recognizable face She was now seven years old and had changed quite a bit with the four-year-old girl who used to chase after Rob in black.
She approached Rob and tried to identify Rob. Raza told him to come closer and told her that she had forgotten her mother tongue and was well set in her new life. She speaks English better than Reza and laughs at Rob's joke about her accent.
She is a sweet and talkative baby girl and eager to share her life, school, school awards and friends in the UK.
Eventually the meeting ended. We watched Reza and Bro disappear into the crowd. Apparently, the reason I met Raza was just hoping to make money from the Hollywood movie.
At this point we felt that challenging it could lead to the wrong outcome. We felt that we wanted to know more about the situation so that there could be a way to mix the bullets and the bro.
Before he left, I secretly took some pictures of him to show Bro's mother. These were his first photos in three years that the bullet saw. Earlier, he had seen Bro's picture in the BBC report.
When we told the bullet about her daughter on the phone, she couldn't control her emotions and started crying. He asked us to embrace his daughter and to love her and requested that we meet her bro.
There was a lot of stake here and we didn't want Raza to have any doubts and he would disappear again.
It was the night of December 19, I was sitting in my car in the dark, fitting a tracking device in a toy.
Rob sent a text message to Raza for another meeting and kept it while he was in school. We knew Raza would think about Hollywood money, but only a few gifts, including a teddy bear, would be met at the meeting. One side of this teddy bear was open and could be closed with something in it.
If Raza accepts that teddy bear, we will be able to track it and we will know where he lives with his daughter. We decided that as soon as we knew their address, we would turn off the tracker and, in any case, turn it off before returning to Bro's School.
A private detective, who was helping us, suggested that a man follow the pleasure on foot. Rob's friend Callen has kindly offered to help us.
Another meeting with Raza also took place in a shopping center outside the city. I was sitting across the street in a shop watching everything. Rob waited for Reza at the coffee shop. Callen sat down a little too far.
It was a while before Raza arrived. He wandered around the outside of the shop for a few minutes, then came in smiling. He took the gift of Teddy bear. He kept telling about his war in Afghanistan and about the war he claimed he had fled. After 20 minutes he got up to leave. Teddy bear had it and Callen was chasing it.
We got back in the car where the tracker was updated every twenty seconds. Colin Raza was chasing us down the buses. But then a nervous Collin call. He thinks Reza has found out. He is nervous and wants to extend his distance. We agree with that, now we only have tracker support. But the tracker suddenly stops working.
Twenty minutes pass. We are concerned that Raza will not leave Teddy Bear on the bus. Colin gets back to the car. The details of Raza's journey tell us that he seems to be on his way. Where is he trying to mislead us?
We are all worried and hopeless. Raza is unlikely to be reunited and we have no other plans.
The detective who was working with us says that he will go to the last location shown on the app and inspect it. We wait and it seems that time is running out.
Then a lot happens together. The app seems to be working again. Teddy bear is going somewhere again and the detective is chasing him.
We can see that he is moving out of the city center. And then the moment we've all been waiting for. Spy phone comes. He stands outside a building on a residential flats, and he has seen Raza walk a few moments ago. He advises us to look for evidence that Reza and Bro actually live in the same building. We start looking in the garbage bags outside. It takes a long time, but eventually we get a kid's bus pass and a school label that has a bro's name on it.
We call the tablet. We've got their baby.
Now we can hand the matter over to the authorities. Subsequent investigations show that Raza had entered the same story as France to enter Britain. Which was in stark contrast to the information and documents provided by the bullet.
Investigation of claims made during the asylum application is initiated.
During the investigation we try to contact Bro to know the situation and to hear from Reza. Raza has not responded to us yet.
We have now reached the part of the story where we cannot tell the rest of the story in detail because of the protection of a young girl's private details.
The pill is supported by Angus McNeill, an MP from the Scottish National Party, who is particularly interested in refugee issues. They agreed to have an informal conversation with Reza to give the bullet access to the bro.
After talking to McNeill, Goli also realized that whatever Raza did, only Raza was with his parents for most of his life.
"We have to think what's best for both girls," says Angus McNeill. Both should have the opportunity to get to know both of their parents. '
It is up to the authorities to decide what will happen next. One difficulty is that the bullet has found refuge in Denmark. He and his younger daughter cannot stay in the UK if they wish.
Christmas is approaching and arrives at Liverpool airport with a bag full of pills and rain gifts. Me and Rob go to pick them up and soon the rain shows us their new suit. The bullet has just purchased the second suit for her sister, though she also says she didn't know the size. Bro was three years old when he was raised, now he is sixty years old.
There are constant messages on the tablet's phone, from his mother in Turkey, and Martin, a Danish-based activist. They are praying that everything will be okay.
When we get to the meeting point, we see Bro running with his father. He also holds gifts for his sister. So much time has passed that the bullet is having difficulty recognizing her daughter, and she cries. He can't believe the time has come. I just stand away, so they can have time together.
The bullet has prepared itself for that day. She knows it won't be easy.
She was nervous going to the bro and she noticed that the little girl was also confused to see her approaching. He bowed down and told his daughter his name and told him who she was.
The barn was not seized at all and his happiness was not in control. She ran and hugged her older sister. She had always mentioned her desire to hug her older sister and now her dream had come true. She showed Bro her new soothing suit and said she would both swim in the same suit.
Golley began learning English to meet his daughter, Bro. All three of those early moments were speaking together but the rain was loud.
Soon the three merged with each other, turning their hands into each other's hair. Bro was making a bunch of hair from his mother
During all of this, the bullet left her daughters alone for a while. He said that he needed isolation for a while, for what happened in those few minutes was very powerful. She also didn't want to put too much pressure on Bro.
After two hours of meeting she was very happy when she got in the car. She repeatedly showed me pictures and videos that she had made during which her two daughters were playing with each other. Before she showed me, she had sent it all to her mother, sister and Martin.
He said he felt like Bro didn't remember anything about it and that it was the most painful thing for him. Bro knew only about mother, 'My mother is not alive and I have no mother.'
The bullet said it couldn't describe the feeling of seeing it for the first time. "She tried to come close to me, she was grown up, very beautiful and independent, so I am not sad, I can forgive anything."
The bullet went a long way. She describes her life in a prison in Iran where she had nothing to do with the bus and where her greatest happiness was snatched away. She says she's changed a lot.
'I didn't know I had that much strength. Now the feeling of being a woman inside me is great. It is so beautiful I can make decisions and be responsible for my own decisions. '
The journey to the bullet is not over yet. Those relationships that were lost require a lot of time and effort to rebuild.
'My dream now is to take care of my children. They have to build the relationship I want. I can give her the beautiful life she deserves.
Rob was very angry at Raza for lying but now he is not so angry. He can forgive Raza and wants a new relationship between Goli and his daughter Bro.
Rob did what he wanted to do, namely, a good role in the refugee crisis. In the end, no matter how good the system is for dealing with the problem of refugees, the authorities can never reach the end of every story. In turmoil and noise, the truth can easily be lost.
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