'Please forgive me for ending it this way. It's better to die with my dignity than be subjected to torture and undignified death back in Nigeria.'

Asylum seeker, 19, married to British man in a coma after taking overdose days before she was due to be deported for being a 'sham bride'
May Brown fled Nigeria after witnessing father's murder
She married Michael Brown in Dorset and wanted to be a lawyer
Border officials say the marriage is bogus

A campaign has been launched to urge officials to allow critically-ill asylum seeker May Brown to stay in the UK. The 19-year-old is so traumatised at the prospect of returning to Nigeria that she tried to kill herself.
She remains in a serious condition at Dorset County Hospital where husband, former British soldier Michael Brown from Weymouth, is staging a vigil.

May’s application to stay in the UK was refused by the Border Agency and she was told she would be sent back to Nigeria on a chartered flight.

May was so scared at the prospect of returning to the country where she witnessed her father’s murder and was subjected to sexual abuse, that she decided she would ‘rather die than go back there.’ Speaking at Dorset County Hospital, May’s husband Michael said the situation made him ‘furious.’ He added: “Although May has gained consciousness, she’s absolutely traumatised.

(Dorset Echo)

An asylum seeker who is married to a British man is fighting for her life in hospital after an overdose just days before she was due to be sent back to Nigeria.

May Brown, a 19-year-old college student, fled to Britain from her home country three years ago after witnessing her father's murder and being subjected to sexual abuse.

She settled in Weymouth, Dorset, where she met her husband, Michael Brown, 12 months ago and the couple married last December.

Mrs Brown, who was a games maker at last summer's Olympics and has two university offers to study law, applied to stay in the UK but despite her marriage her application was rejected.