A Sierra Leone athlete who came to Britain for the Commonwealth Games, is facing deportation. It's reminiscent of a 1960s Aussie athlete who also found himself trapped in the UK.
As John Dobbie recounts, Reg Spiers was stranded in London with no money, so he got into a wooden crate and posted himself home. Not that such a move is recommended these days, with depressurised cargo holds. Spiers, lives in South Australia these days, and h is colourful life includes charges of trafficking cannabis and illegal possessions of a firearm.
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