Moment Iranian asylum seeker fed up with life in Britain tries to sail to France in child’s toy dinghy [Video]

An asylum seeker fed up with Britain tried to sail to France aboard a child’s toy dinghy.

In an astonishing scene at the beach in Dover, Kent, the tall Iranian pumped up the tiny red and yellow rubber craft as he prepared to set to sea.

He was only stopped from leaving when locals alerted police who arrested him at lunchtime on Wednesday and seized the dinghy.

A passer-by and former fisherman said: ‘The man said he was Iranian and had been put in a Home Office hotel ‘in the countryside’ for three years without being able to work.’

Another witness said the 41-year-old spoke of being depressed and how he came to Dover around a week and a half ago to live on the streets as he plotted how to get back to France.