NHS boss turns sleuth to reunite survivors of Channel crossing with sodden possessions

Simon Pizzey was determined to find owners of misdelivered box marked with name of Manston asylum centre

An NHS boss has kept a vow he made to himself to reunite two small boat arrivals with precious belongings from which they were separated for 68 days, having been delivered to him by mistake.

Simon Pizzey, 35, who works for an NHS trust in Leicestershire, said the seven days between receiving the sodden belongings and tracking down their owners was ‘an epic journey of emotional highs and lows.’