GETTY • FILE PIC The Scottish Island of Bute was selected as part of the Government's scheme to rehouse 20,000 Syrian

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For many people, the chance of living on a Scottish island is a dream. But it appears to have become a nightmare for Syrian refugees living in Rothesay, on the island of Bute. Some of those who have been resettled there within the past year complain that the area is full of old people and somewhere you come to die. Their names have been changed due to fears for the safety of relatives who are still in Syria.

GETTY Syrian refugees in Bute. Authorities said the majority of refugees had settled in well

I didn’t expect to come to this island. We thought we were going to London or Manchester. Abd, 42, a Syrian refugee

Abd, a 42-year-old refugee, said: “At first, of course, I was really happy to come to the UK. It is the mother of freedom. “I didn’t expect to come to this island. We thought we were going to London or Manchester.” Abd, who lives wife his wife Rasha, 35, and their four children, said: “There is no movement, there is nothing. I’m not bored any more. I am depressed now. I feel like I have one option now – to die here. Only die here, nothing else.”

Getty Syrian families on the Isle of Bute

Rasha explained the family’s decision to leave Syria. She said: “It’s really, really hard to leave your country, but we had to…it was a war zone. There was no water, no electricity, no food.” She shares her husband’s views, describing the island as being “full of old people” and a place “where people come to die.” Another Syrian family living on Bute, Rasha’s sister Fatima, 31, and her husband Hassan, 41, who have two young daughters, are also unhappy.

Getty Flats near Rothesay, which house some Syrian refugees

Getty Elderly woman waiting for a bus in Rothesay