‘Doesn’t seem possible’: Londoner who wants to house Afghan refugees

Krystyna Deuss has offered flat to Afghan judge Fawzia but she has not been allowed to move in

• Thousands of Afghans stuck in UK hotels as resettlement plan stalls

Krystyna Deuss arrived in the UK at the age of four in 1947 as a refugee from Poland. When she saw headlines about Afghans being airlifted to safety last summer, she wanted to help.

Now a Londoner, she had fled with her family during postwar communist rule in the country of her birth. Like many of the Afghans airlifted to safety, her family had had to go into hiding before they fled. Her father was a judge and she said members of the intelligentsia" such as him were at risk.