He came to Britain in search of a “quiet life” having escaped the poverty and violence of war-torn Eritrea.

Little did the 40-year-old asylum seeker realise that the horrors back home in Asmara, the Eritrean capital, may be nothing compared to living in Swansea, Wales’s second city.

The refugee has pleaded with authorities to move him out of Swansea city centre because of the ‘bad people’ living there.

The city may be the birthplace of some of Wales’s greatest sons and daughters - from Dylan Thomas to Catherine Zeta-Jones - but it has terrified the life out of the immigrant.