Free from the British detention centre where he had been on the brink of despair, a Zimbabwean asylum seeker has £10 (Dh65) to his name not enough for the train fare needed to report to immigration officers, which could mean another trip back to detention.
The man says that despite his shame and loneliness, the alternative kidnapping, torture, and possible disappearance makes him desperate to remain in Britain.
The British government, however, is eager to show it is tough on refugee claimants it considers bogus.
Like many of the 9,340 other Zimbabweans who have applied for asylum in Britain since 2001, Gumbo is desperate for a policy change to halt deportations of rejected asylum seekers.
Two years ago, London suspended deportations of Zimbabwean refugees. But several months later in line with Britain's tougher immigration policies limited deportations were resumed.
That policy shift triggered a refugee hunger strike and outrage among asylum seekers and lawmakers alike.
Gumbo says that in Zimbabwe he was at risk for his political affiliations.
"If I am sent back right now, definitely I will be a dead man once I arrive there," says Gumbo, 39, who had a brush with members of the governing Zanu-PF party when he was spotted putting up notices for the Movement for Democratic Change. One of his friends was murdered that day, and he has been afraid ever since.
"So many friends who we had here have disappeared," he said. "Friends deported from the UK and we never heard from them, no one knows where they are."
