Iranian immigrant BEGS to be kicked out of UK after handing himself in to police – because he’s fed up of the city’s ‘rudeness and violence

An Iranian migrant walked into a police station and demanded to be deported – because he’d ‘had enough’ of Manchester.

Arash Aria, 25, said he was desperate to leave because of the ‘rudeness and violence’ in the city.

Handing himself in at a police station, he told officers he had been in the UK illegally for ten years. But he was released two hours later after immigration officials found he had indefinite leave to be in the UK.

Greater Manchester Police later wrote about the ‘strange incident’ on Twitter, saying an ‘angry and agitated’ Mr Aria would now have to ‘find his own way home’.

Explaining his actions last night, the former waiter said he was struggling to find work and could not ‘achieve his dreams’ in his adopted city – where he lives in a tower block.

He said: ‘The people of Manchester have not been welcoming. It’s words, violence… many things. I try to ignore people but I’m fed up now. I don’t get the respect I should here.

‘I try to be friendly and polite. But they just laugh at me because I am foreign and look at me strangely.’

He added: ‘I used to work as a waiter and a barman but now people won’t give me shifts – for no reason.

‘I am on benefits but I don’t want that. Everyone wants to work, to have a dream but I can’t achieve my dreams here.

‘I want to get a good job, save money and do something big – be somebody.’

Mr Aria said he wanted to return to his home city of Shiraz, in south-west Iran, where he will stay with his family. ‘I am just waiting for my passport to come through and then I will book my flights and start my life out there,’ he told The Daily Telegraph.

But rather than cause upset in Manchester, several locals gave their support to the Iranian.

One user joked on Twitter that ‘we’ve all been there’, while another quipped: ‘Ten years in Manchester? Never mind deportation – give the man a medal’.

According to the Office for National Statistics, some 83,000 Iranians lived in the UK in 2011 – up from 42,000 in 2001, with 3,500 of those living in the north-west.

Police said Mr Aria was arrested after shouting at staff and on suspicion of an immigration offence but later released from custody without charge.