‘I will never forgive myself’: Father recalls heartbreaking moment daughter died on small boat

A man whose seven-year-old daughter was among five people killed in an overcrowded small boat crossing the Channel has mourned her death and lamented that he “could not protect her”.

“I will never forgive myself. But the sea was the only choice I had,” said Ahmed Alhashimi, a 41-year-old man from Iraq, whose family of five was aboard the vessel, on what was their fourth attempt to cross over to Britain in two months.

But while Mr Alhashimi, his wife Ahmed Alhashimi,