'I HAD TO DO IT' Sudanese migrant who claimed asylum after walking through the Channel Tunnel walks free from court…and is allowed to stay in #UK

A MIGRANT who walked to Britain from France through the Channel Tunnel has today walked free from court after pleading guilty to an obstruction charge.

Abdul Rahman Haroun, 40, was arrested after being caught by officers walking at the end of the 31-mile tunnel last year.

He was today sentenced to nine months – but walked away free after serving five months in custody.

The Sudanese man faced a charge of “causing an obstruction to an engine or carriage” after passing trains travelling at 100mph.

Haroun – who said he was prepared to die to make it to Britain -appeared at Canterbury Crown Court in front of Judge Adele Williams today and had been due to stand trial.

He told officers that his “family and people all know that the trains take them to the UK”.

After walking through the tunnel he said: “I had to do it. I didn’t have any orders. I tried everything.

“There wasn’t any other solution. Even if I died, there wasn’t another solution. Even if I die – that was the only solution.”

Haroun had previously said he felt he had “done nothing wrong” by fleeing his war-torn homeland in the Darfur region of Sudan and through the Tunnel to the UK.

Speaking to The Telegraph he said: “I came because my life was in danger. I did not know I was going to be held in a police cell. If I had known I would not have come.”

Haroun clung onto “pieces of metal” inside the tunnel to avoid the oncoming trains and has already successfully applied for the right to stay in Britain and has been granted asylum.