Fifteen weeks after kissing his family goodbye, the 18-year-old's dreams of reaching the UK to reunite with his sister and play football for Man City ended beneath the waves on a dark night in the English Channel.
It was from here, on a hot August evening last summer, that a young Kurdish boy put on his rucksack, double checked his new passport and said a final goodbye to the home he'd lived in all his life.
Turkey is the first stop for many leaving the Middle East - visas are easy to obtain and once there, land and sea routes open up. By contrast British visas, many migrants will say, are almost impossible to secure. The coast between Calais and Dunkirk is informally divided into zones, each controlled by different smugglers. It is lucrative real estate and territory is defended aggressively if threatened. Should a smuggler choose to sell his zone, he can expect to make tens of thousands of pounds.
At 2pm in northern France, the two speak again. A new smuggler has offered them the chance to cross that evening and with the weather window closing fast Twana is keen to go. Half an hour later - by now after midnight in Iraq - Zana calls his brother to check he's safe. Twana tells him the dingy is poor quality and the weather wasn't good but they're ok and making progress.Migrants still crossing the Channel
"It's late in Kurdistan, go to sleep," Twana tells his older brother, reassuring him everything is fine and that he would phone their sister in the UK if he needed help.
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