Home Office ‘refuses to believe Kenyan asylum seeker is a lesbian’ A lesbian who left her daughters behind in Kenya amid death threats was refused asylum as the Home Office did not ‘believe’ she was gay.
Given her work as a travel consultant and the ‘breakdown of her marriage’ – with a man who Virginia said was abusive – the decision-maker said she could ‘relocate to other areas within Kenya’.
(Photo by Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP) (Photo by YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP via Getty Images)] A decision letter seen by Metro said: ‘I have found the appellant’s account relating to her sexuality and any risk of her sexuality as either inconsistent, incoherent or so implausible as to be capable of belief.
Kenya's high court, in a much-awaited verdict, refused to scrap laws criminalising homosexuality, fearing this would lead to same-sex marriage which it said was unconstitutional.
‘When my daughter was barely two years old, I couldn’t take it any more and I left,’ Virginia, who founded a travel agency in 2006, said.
