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Eighty miles off the Libyan coast water is leaking rapidly into the bottom of a dilapidated wooden boat. Twenty-seven men, crammed in side-by-side, desperately attempt to bail it out, but the boat is sinking. In the distance one of their number spots a ship and, forcing the last moments of life from the engine, they move towards it. But the crew refuses to allow them on board. Instead the men scramble onto the floats of a huge industrial tuna net, and watch as their boat rolls over and disappears into the heaving Mediterranean. Like tens of thousands of others Justice set off from his rural village with an idealised vision of an new life in England - the 'home' country - desperate just to earn his way and help his orphaned brother and sister left behind. During his long journey to the African coast, he's captured, jailed and tortured, before escaping and heading northwards again. Once in Tripoli he's duped into handing over his life savings for a trip in a wreck of a boat across miles of open sea to almost certain death. But there is also compassion here and he meets old and wise souls along the way. The tuna net is not the end of Justice's story. It is an extraordinary tale of courage, and an important account of a life caught between cultures, on the edge of survival.
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Paul Kenyon is an award-winning journalist who has worked for almost twenty years across BBC News and Current Affairs. In 2005 he was the first reporter to film Iran's secret nuclear sites, making an hour-long documentary which was shown around the world. For four years Paul had his own series on BBC One, Kenyon Confronts which used secret filming to expose corruption in areas as diverse as horse-racing, the Catholic Church and immigration. At its peak it was the most watched current affairs programme on the BBC. Paul currently works on Panorama and he became friends with Justice Amin while researching a two-part story on African migrants for the programme in 2007.
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Eighty miles off the North African coast, a tiny fibreglass boat is sinking. There are twenty-seven men crammed on-board. All are desperate. Then one of them spots a ship on the horizon. They clamber onto the floats of a giant fishing net as their boat finally rolls over and disappears beneath the Mediterranean Sea.
Justice Amin, is exhausted, cold and soaked. As night comes, all hopes of rescue fade and he is left drifting in a hazy place between Africa and Europe, darkness and light, innocence and experience.
Justice's journey began in Ghana, at the hands of his uncle, an abusive medicine man. Determined to make something of his life, he fled across the Sahara Desert, before being captured, jailed and tortured. He managed to escape and headed for the people smugglers of Libya, who he hoped would sail him to freedom and prosperity across the sea to Britain, the 'home country'.
Every year thousands of Africans risk their lives on one of the world's most perilous migration routes,Paul Kenyon tells the true story of just one of them, Justice Amin.
Paul Kenyon is an award-winning journalist who has worked for the BBC for almost twenty years. He is currently a reported for Panorama and ti was whilst making a two-part documentary on African migrants in 2007 that he became friends with Justice Amin.
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