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Refugee kids ‘have seen too much’

A MIGRANT solidarity convoy returned to Britain yesterday after delivering £7,500 worth of food, clothes and sanitary goods to the French refugee camp known as the Jungle.

London couple Mona Dohle and Syed Bokhari arrived home with reports of children and pregnant women waiting to be allowed into Britain.

“The first word that comes to my mind when I think of our sisters and brothers in the refugee camp is dignified,” Ms Dohle said in a statement to the press.

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