Mr Woolner, 23, said: "I think life for him was hard. He was struggling to get by day to day. He just wanted a house where he could live and somewhere he could call home. His dad and brother had been killed. This was often part of the trouble he faced – he was very concerned that the people that killed his father would kill him too. He thought he would not be able to get out of the airport in Iraq without them knowing. He said if he went back he would be killed, or captured and tortured."

Osman went to Nottinghamshire and Nottingham Refugee Forum for the past year for advice about how he could remain in the UK. He was classed as destitute  and received food parcels and £10 a month from the forum.

Alan Simpson former MP for Nottingham South, who was involved in helping a number of asylum seekers and refugees, said:  "I fail to understand how in Iraq, where the US has still not found itself able to withdraw troops because of the fear of the descent into uncontrolled sectarian violence, that somehow those who have fled the violence are safe to return. You would think that our view of Britain as a civilized society would not be one in which the best option left open to people was to take their lives rather than have it taken from them elsewhere."

An appeal has now been launched to raise the £3,300 needed to pay for Osman's body to be sent home to his mother in Iraq. We are trying to raise £2,000 of the total. All the funds raised on this page, including the gift aid will be donated to this appeal.

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