6ft 1ins, Migrant Posed as 15 Years Old to is still being treated as a child

The Iranian asylum seeker who posed as a 15-year-old GCSE student is still being treated as a child despite him being outed as an adult.

The 6ft 1in man, who came to Britain using the name Siavash, spent six weeks as a Year 11 pupil at Stoke High School in Ipswich, Suffolk, but was only taken out of class when pupils became upset and parents threatened a boycott.

An official probe found he is almost certainly over 18 and should be treated as an adult asylum seeker, which would mean he could be deported if his claim is refused.

But a source claims that the Home Office is still treating him as a child and that he is still claiming to be under 18 on his application.



The student was suspended earlier this month after a fellow student posted a Snapchat picture of him in uniform in a classroom with the message: 'How's there a 30-year-old man in our maths class?'

The student's classmates had also discovered what appeared to be old pictures of him on Facebook, showing him with a full beard, a hairy chest and swigging a beer.

Parents and children at the school have expressed their anger about the scandal. Eventually, they pulled out of Stoke High pending a full investigation.


His social media account claimed, he was a former architecture student from Islamic Azad University in Abadan, Iran,