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The former police officer and his mother Mala successfully sought asylum in the UK after they fled their South East Asian homeland in circumstances they asked not to discuss in public for their own safety.

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"We are here tomorrow to come and play our brand of football in difficult circumstances, in an incredible place like Wembley," said Bellamy.

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WhatsApp does offer end-to-end encryption of messages and calls but, according to its policy, it can share meta data - such as message or call logs - with governments under legally valid circumstances.

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Those rules are only waived in extraordinary circumstances.

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He said it would have been "the last approach any parent would have wanted in the circumstances", but by chance the couple were away.

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