Jimmy Thoronka who absconded from Sierra Leone’s contingent which featured in the 2014 Commonwealth games held in Glasgow has been asked to leave the United Kingdom voluntarily by Monday.
Thoronka, who was discovered by the Guardian emaciated and homeless on the streets of London, in his application noted that following the death of eight members of his family from Ebola, he was in a “chronic traumatised state” and had no family to return to in Sierra Leone.
Despite this and the fact that he applied to stay in the UK after being offered a sports scholarship by the University of East London, the Home Office refused his application.
Now Thoronka says his dreams of becoming a world class athlete is being shattered, a fact corroborated by President of the Sierra Leone Athletics Association, Abdul Karim Sesay, told the Guardian: “There are no good opportunities for Jimmy to train in Sierra Leone.”