![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/british-airways-stranded-me-and-my-3-year-old-in-the-uk-with-no-passport-and-no-visa/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/0_unnamedjpeg.jpg&description=Benadetha Rwehumbiza, 29, and her daughter Charlotte, three, were flying to Tanzania from Spain via Gatwick but were told to make their own way to Heathrow despite not having legal paperwork A mum from Tanzania says she was left 'stranded' with her three-year-old daughter on the streets of London after her connecting flight home was cancelled. Benadetha Rwehumbiza was flying from Alicante in Spain to Dar es Salaam via Gatwick and Doha, Qatar, with daughter Ivy Charlotte O'Gorman when her journey halted. She claims when she arrived at the UK airport on May 8 she was told by British Airways-owned Iberia that she'd missed the first connection, but her name could be transferred to a different flight taking off from Heathrow and she was given new boarding passes. Charlotte was born in the UK and has a British passport but her mum doesn't and says she didn't have any of the correct paperwork to be in Britain. Benadetha claims when she arrived at Heathrow she was told by Border Force she had to be out of the country within a day or face arrest. The 29-year-old mum told the Mirror: "We had to get a taxi to Heathrow for £100. It was very stressful, the little one was crying and tired. I didn't want to stay there [in the UK], I was just supposed to be transferring planes. They asked for a visa, I didn't have a visa. Border Force said you have 24 hours to get to Heathrow or you will be arrested." Her ex-pat husband Martin O'Gorman, 67, originally from Birmingham, said: "My wife and three-year-old daughter were sent out onto the streets of a country and city they had never been to before, without a British Passport or visa. "She is well aware of the UK Government's hostility to illegal immigrants so was worried and stressed that she could be arrested at any time - and maybe deported to Rwanda - which wouldn't have been a bad result, ultimately she would be a lot closer to her desired destination. "For all they knew she could have just absconded onto the streets of the UK, opene){kind=link}
Benadetha Rwehumbiza, 29, and her daughter Charlotte, three, were flying to Tanzania from Spain via Gatwick but were told to make their own way to Heathrow despite not having legal paperwork
A mum from Tanzania says she was left ‘stranded’ with her three-year-old daughter on the streets of London after her connecting flight home was cancelled.
Benadetha Rwehumbiza was flying from Alicante in Spain to Dar es Salaam via Gatwick and Doha, Qatar, with daughter Ivy Charlotte O’Gorman when her journey halted.
She claims when she arrived at the UK airport on May 8 she was told by British Airways-owned Iberia that she’d missed the first connection, but her name could be transferred to a different flight taking off from Heathrow and she was given new boarding passes.
Charlotte was born in the UK and has a British passport but her mum doesn’t and says she didn’t have any of the correct paperwork to be in Britain.