THE haar rolls in to Aberdeen and wraps itself around the city like a dirty blanket. At the port, the hulking figures of ferries and container ships are almost obscured beneath the freezing fog as the North Sea laps at the stone harbour wall, bitter and unforgiving.
Miana Badd was 25 when she first arrived here, transferred against her will from another harbour town, her home of Kismaayo, in southern Somalia. She knew nothing about life in north-east Scotland until she was found on the streets of Aberdeen by two police officers in February 2007. The police found Miana beaten and with her wrists bound in handcuffs. A mother without her children, a wife, possibly a widow, the only possession she owned was a torn and faded photograph of two tiny children. More...
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