Desperate dad of youngest child in Calais Jungle asks why UK government is ‘turning away vulnerable kids’

THE desperate father of the youngest child in the Calais jungle last night demanded to know why his kids could not get into the UK when much older migrants could.

Samad Ahmed, 36, led Lauwan, four, Rand, ten, and Sahan, 11, to the camp to escape ISIS killers.

Iraqi Kurd Samad, who was with wife Narmin, 29, told The Sun: “We are desperate. If they can’t go with us we will have to give them to someone else to go and we will stay.

“We have an uncle and nephew in London. We have family in the UK, that’s why we want to go.

“We’ve been for an interview with the people from the Home Office.

“They asked us questions about our relationship. They are going to get back to us.

“We have been here two-and-a-half months.

“We have come from Iraqi Kurdistan to escape the fighting. My children were in danger if we stayed.”

Trouble first flared on Saturday and Sunday night ahead of the doomed closure of the migrant camps, with tear gas, stones and punches thrown.

Yesterday, Police began clearing out up to 10,000 people from the camp as it was demolished.

French authorities said 2,318 of the migrants were bussed from the camp yesterday to centres around the country.

The plan is to relocate all migrants and refugees at seven centres and the Jungle will be wiped off the map.

But despite the measures, last night migrants vowed to still get to Britain.

An Afghan called Jamil told The Sun: “If you want to go to UK you have to go to Calais. This won’t change anything.

“I am alone. My family are in the UK. I will go to the UK.

“Police say they will arrest you if you say you are not going to another city. But it is stupid to move us away from Calais.

"We will just come back.”

During clashes last night, protesters pelted riot police with stones while screaming: “F*** the police.”

Officers fired tear gas to get them away from a fence preventing them from boarding UK-bound lorries.

At one point youths rushed towards onlookers yelling: “Walk away, walk away.”

The UK has agreed to take hundreds of unaccompanied kids who have relatives here.

However, coach loads of Calais 'children' with no links to the UK arrived days before the closure of the camp.

Home Secretary Amber Rudd has insisted no new children at the Calais Jungle will be given a home here - in a bid to prevent more children being transported to Calais.

Delivering an urgent statement in the Commons yesterday, Mrs Rudd said: “Through this process it is important we do not encourage more children to head to Calais, risking their lives in the hands of traffickers.

“That’s why we will only consider those present in the camps before the start of clearances of the operation today.”

Controversy hit last week when the age of a migrant was called into question, sparking a furious row between leftie luvvies and The Sun.

But the Home Secretary has vowed to continue bringing migrant children into the UK.

Mrs Rudd said: “We will continue to do this quickly. But it is essential we carry out the proper safeguarding, age assessment and security checks to ensure the children are eligible, and that it is in their best interests to come.”