Clare Moseley, who set up Care4Calais eight years ago, abruptly quit this month amid a series of disturbing reports about her behaviour. Care4Calais provides food, shelter, healthcare and legal support to Channel migrants in camps. The refugee charity boss was accused of pepper spraying a refugee in Belgium as well as threatening to drag a female volunteer “by the f*****g hair”.
Mrs Moseley confirmed having made the threat in early 2020.
She also admitted that she had illegally carried pepper spray in Belgium, which she used “in self-defence” on a refugee who had attacked her.
The married Mrs Moseley, 52, also controversially began a romance with a migrant nearly twenty years her junior, despite her own charity’s no sex with migrants policy.
The Daily Mail revealed this week that the migrant in question – Tunisian Mohamed Bajar – has managed to slip into Britain and had a baby with another woman.
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Mr Bajar, who had been hired by C4C as a translator, was previously jailed in France for attempted arson in 2017 after trying to set fire to a C4C warehouse.
The open romance, which sparked outrage among volunteers, ended in 2017 amid claims that Mr Bajar had tried to con Mrs Moseley out of money.
However, the 34-year-old Tunisian is now happily living in the UK after settling in Bolton, Greater Manchester.
In October 2021, he married a 35-year-old Romanian receptionist, who later gave birth to a son just over a year ago.
It remains unclear how Mr Bajar entered the country, given his criminal record.
Mr Bajar told the Daily Mail that he was “legally in the country,” adding: “I have the right to work and travel and everything.”
Mrs Moseley’s charity has been under investigation from the Charity Commission since August 2020.
The watchdog highlighted concerns about the organisation’s financial accounts and governance.
The charity’s new chief executive Steve Smith said Moseley’s decision to quit was a “complete and utter surprise”.
He added that he had been expecting to go on working with her for the “foreseeable future”.
Ms Moseley said that as the head of a “young and fast-growing operation”, she has been “placed in many positions where I had to make difficult and high-pressured decisions”.
She said: “If I made mistakes or upset any of our volunteers, I am sorry for that.
“I have devoted the last seven and a half years to serving the charity as an unpaid volunteer working long hours to do everything in my power to help and advocate for refugees.”
A spokesperson for the charity told Third Sector: “As a new charity, we didn’t always have the right internal systems and processes in place to support this growth and we acknowledge that we got things wrong. We are sorry for those mistakes.”
