True love - Trurkish man sails 16ft yacht from Turkey to Plymouth

haydude said:
Offer a blanket, a cup of tea and a free berth for a month would have been being gentle hosts.
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He will get the bed, food and warmth and then sent home. What would you do after the month though, allow him access to the UK or send him home? I assume you agree that his identity and nationality would have to be verified officially before allowing him access. I assume the authorities would also have to check that he has the skills that the UK wants and has no criminal record. In short, he would still have to apply but from the UK - which is wrong considering most people will apply from their own countries. Do you expect that we should just board him and serve him while his application is processed, or do we just let him in as he must be a good egg having sailed this far.

I agree that giving him the opportunity to sail away again would have been better after victualing his vessel and preparing her again for sea if he was capable of doing that. I suspect that there is more to this and that detention and deportation is a reasonable position assuming he requested to stay in the UK and did not seek asylum.
 
Nicholas123 said:
Yes seems very unfair to me......they could have warned him off & told him he would be impounded if he entered the UK then I dare say he would have gone somewhere else & .....he must have passed through other Countries on route I wonder how they treated him?

What a miserable Country we have become when you consider all the immigrants we see on our streets many of whome I'm sure can't be legal :(
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Read the article. He was trying to get to the UK to find a woman he met on a holiday 7 years ago, who now quite clearly wants nothing to do with him. He has been deported from other countries. The fact that he is obsessively seeking this woman makes him look as if the proper term is not "illegal immigrant" but stalker.

There is nothing to stop any Turk getting a passport, or applying for a visa to visit the UK. The fact that he has chosen not to probably speaks volumes for his mental state.

The article says a great deal about the journalist's knowledge of Turkey and Greece, with this quote: "Despite her blocking him from her account, he set off in his 16ft yacht Ninova from Bodrum, near the Turkish city of Kos, in March this year."
 
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Well if anyone wants to read his blog of the journey:

http://www.courtneyforever.com/ - "Hunger Strike For Courtney Murray"

In amongst the sailing talk, there is a string of run in's with immigration officials in various countries, prison spells and lots of "Courtney come on Courtney. Only 1 yes… You see, I do what ever i can do. Please accept me. I love you."

The whole thing reeks badly of sex pest....
 
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Apropos of very little, this has caused me to wonder if all those Vendee Globe singleton sailors have passports and valid visas for the various states they plan to sail past.... in case they need to stop.
 
bbg said:
This is the kind of guy
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Interesting to see a picture of his boat in that story. I'm sure I recognise the type, with the window across the front of the cabin and the small round ones each side. Is it a Newbridge creation of some kind?

However deranged the skipper, Turkey to Plymouth via Biscay in November is a testament to how far a small boat can get.

Pete
 
Flying Penguin said:
What? You mean turning up at your love interest's place of work armed with a knife isn't an accepted courtship option any more?
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Depends where you are. I believe in some of the 'Stans it's traditional for the groom and his friends to ritually invade the bride's father's "encampment" just before the wedding and symbolically kidnap the bride-to-be and carry her off to be married. Even if bride and groom actually met each other in a bar or an Internet dating site, and the encampment is a suburban house with satellite TV. I suppose it's no weirder than some of the old customs we play-act at such times.

Pete
 
prv said:
Interesting to see a picture of his boat in that story. I'm sure I recognise the type, with the window across the front of the cabin and the small round ones each side. Is it a Newbridge creation of some kind?

However deranged the skipper, Turkey to Plymouth via Biscay in November is a testament to how far a small boat can get.

Pete
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Exactly. I would be more interested in his journey rather than the implications of his arrival on UK shores.
I feel there is a book in this story somewhere. Perhaps as I live locally I could be his literary agent?
 
prv said:
Interesting to see a picture of his boat in that story. I'm sure I recognise the type, with the window across the front of the cabin and the small round ones each side. Is it a Newbridge creation of some kind?

However deranged the skipper, Turkey to Plymouth via Biscay in November is a testament to how far a small boat can get.

Pete
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Pretty sure it is a Leisure 17. Very seaworthy little boat, but big challenge to get it as far as Turkey to UK.
 
Norman_E said:
Read the article. He was trying to get to the UK to find a woman he met on a holiday 7 years ago, who now quite clearly wants nothing to do with him. He has been deported from other countries. The fact that he is obsessively seeking this woman makes him look as if the proper term is not "illegal immigrant" but stalker.

There is nothing to stop any Turk getting a passport, or applying for a visa to visit the UK. The fact that he has chosen not to probably speaks volumes for his mental state.

The article says a great deal about the journalist's knowledge of Turkey and Greece, with this quote: "Despite her blocking him from her account, he set off in his 16ft yacht Ninova from Bodrum, near the Turkish city of Kos, in March this year."
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I did read it & I don't think that second half of the story documenting his obsession was there or otherwise I can't imagine how I missed it......Clearly there was more to this story than met my eye......he sounds like a dangerous fruitcake & obviously that is the reason the customs people pounced on him.
 
Flying Penguin said:
Well if anyone wants to read his blog of the journey:

http://www.courtneyforever.com/ - "Hunger Strike For Courtney Murray"

In amongst the sailing talk, there is a string of run in's with immigration officials in various countries, prison spells and lots of "Courtney come on Courtney. Only 1 yes… You see, I do what ever i can do. Please accept me. I love you."

The whole thing reeks badly of sex pest....
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Looks like his blog has been shutdown............... Error 403 Forbidden
 
MASH said:
Hard to believe, isn't it? Apparently sane and one might expect law abiding citizens decrying our legal obligation to reject illegal immigrants. Why is it that whenever someone is caught blatantly breaking the law there is a strident outburst of people saying let him off, he didn't do anything? Is the law optional? Since when?
Is the plan to just ditch the law and live in anarchy (that is, more than we do already)?

Nothing ever seems to be anyone's fault these days, there's always a wet excuse why they should be let off or not punished.

Of course this is a correct decision by the Immigration authorities. I'm not going to sat well done because it is just their job which we expect them to do properly Or at least, the law-abiding ones amongst us do.
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Here here. Why people are trying to defend an illegal Turkish stalker is beyond me. :confused:
 
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