Pen Farthing landed at Heathrow on Sunday morning with around 170 cats and dogs on one of the last evacuation flights out of Kabul.
Mr Farthing initially vowed to return with all of his staff, but had to leave without them after they were turned away when the Taliban claimed they did not have the right paperwork.
Mr Farthing praised the support at the airport, adding: ‘Witnessed 1st hand the compassion Heathrow is showing Afghan refugees.’supports HTML5 video Dominic Dyer, an animal welfare campaigner and supporter of Mr Farthing, said the former marine was forced to travel back alone after being told it was not possible to find people to fill the plane’s seats.He said: ‘Tragic and not the ending we wanted, but we fell victim to the chaos and the difficulties of getting through those gates.’
Mr Dyer claimed an appeal was put in to the British Government ‘to see if we could fill seats with refugees within the airport’.‘In fact, they had more air capacity than they had people, which probably tells you an awful lot about the final days of the withdrawal from Afghanistan.’
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