Syrian refugee Asmaa Al Fashtaki's journey to Cardiff

Syrian refugee Asmaa Al Fashtaki, 29, arrived in the UK last November and was five months pregnant.

She is now settled in Cardiff with her baby son Nabil, although her husband is still a refugee in Jordan.

Her story starts in 2011 with bombing in her home city of Daraa, when the couple fled.

Asmaa spent three years as a refugee, but under pressure to return to Syria, she took a journey via Turkey, Italy and France before arriving in Kent as a stowaway in the back of a lorry.

She said she looked to the UK as a place where she could be safe with her baby.

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