Cindy Ngamba: Cameroonian refugee to pro boxer in UK

OLYMPIC icon Cindy Ngamba was once threatened with deportation to Cameroon, where gay women face five years in prison. Now the 25-year-old has a Paris 2024 bronze medal — the Refugee Team’s first ever — and makes her pro debut at the Royal Albert Hall on March 7. …

But because she lacked the correct paperwork, she has never had a British passport.
Even when Team GB were desperate for her to represent them, red tape blocked it.
The lowest point came when Ngamba and her brother went for their weekly sign-in at a Manchester immigration office but were split up, handcuffed and almost returned to the country they left years before.

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