As the days passed Sofiia would join Tony at the gym and they would talk in his car, while at home they grew physically closer. ‘The atmosphere was getting really bad and Sofiia told me she didn’t know whether she could continue to live with us under these circumstances,’ he said. ‘Lorna was never that enthusiastic about having a refugee in our home because it meant the girls had to move into one room.’ Things came to a head after an explosive row between the women left Sofiia in tears and saying she no longer felt like she could no longer live in the same house as Lorna.
