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BBC reveals asylum abuse in UK
An undercover BBC documentary yesterday showed how private security guards in Britain?s immigration system had assaulted and sexually abused asylum-seekers and immigrants. Excerpts of the film, aired on Tuesday evening, showed guards shouting racial remarks at cowering inmates, bragging about their sexual conquests and admitting to physical violence. In one secretly filmed scene, security guard Jason Martin warns an ill-looking detainee at Oakington detention centre in Cambridgeshire, eastern England, to get out of bed before ?I do you some damage?.
The skinheaded Martin, nick-named Wolfie, then tips the man out of bed after saying, ?My great-grandfather shot your great-grandfather and nicked his fucking country off you for 200 years. I?m not to be fucked about with.? In another snippet, a trainee escort officer who takes failed asylum seekers to the airport to leave Britain, described how he groped female inmates. ?I just put my hand down her tits one time... I just started touching her up right. Good laugh,? he said.
Global Solutions Ltd (GSL), which runs the detention centre and asylum-escort service, said that 15 employees mentioned in the programme had been withdrawn from frontline duties pending an inquiry. ?GSL does not tolerate racism, discrimination or any form of abuse in the workplace,? it said in a statement. The majority of the company?s 900 ?ordinary, decent? staff were ?feeling badly let down by a minority?, GSL said. Immigration Minister Des Browne said he took the BBC?s allegations seriously and had not yet received ?full and complete access? to the information.
Two BBC journalists gathered the footage while one worked undercover at the detention centre and another found an escort job. The documentary, entitled ? ?Detention Undercover ? the Real Story?, is due to be screened at 9:00 pm (2100 GMT).
<I>Source: Times of India</I>
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