"I want to feel that someone cares about me"

A teenage Ukrainian girl who was fostered by a Cornish couple after her mother was murdered, faces being deported.

14-year-old Iryna Mynich has been living in Bodmin since November 2014, but the Government has refused to give her the right to remain in the UK and wrote to tell her they plan to deport her.

Iryna wants to remain in the UK where she is loved and safe.

Iryna Mynich came to Cornwall when she was 11. It was a trip run by a charity to help children living in the shadow of Chernobyl. But while she was here, her mother was murdered.

Iryna went back to the Ukraine but Terence and Heather Voysey found she was living with an elderly and infirm grandmother and was hardly going to school because she was looking after her.

Terence and Heather decided to invite Iryna to live with them. After a year of trying she arrived in Cornwall. She's become the daughter they never had.

If the Voyseys tried to adopt Iryna she would have to live for a year in a Ukrainian orphanage first, so they applied to give her the right to remain in the UK. But the Home Office has turned them down.

ITV News approached the Home Office, which said it would be inappropriate to comment while the case is ongoing.

The family's MP, Scott Mann, is investigating the case. He feels it is wrong to send a 14-year-old girl back to her country to be cared for by her grandmother who is incapable of looking after her.

The Voyseys have launched a high court bid to keep Iryna here and say they won't give up without a fight.