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Intro: A failed asylum seeker is on the run after escaping deportation when he was allowed off a coach heading for the airport to have a cigarette.
The man was part of a group of a dozen men and women due to be thrown out of Britain on a specially chartered flight to Baku in Azerbaijan.
Yet incredibly when they approached Stansted airport in Essex where the plane was waiting, some of the men were allowed off to have a cigarette --- there was no smoking on the coach.
In what appeared to have been a pre-planned break, seven of the men are said to have tried to run off but all bar one were recaptured.
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