Migrants ‘suicidal’ at former RAF base housing hundreds of asylum seekers, shocking testimonies reveal
The Home Office has been accused of using the Wethersfield airfield as a large “open-prison camp” as a new report claims “suicidal” asylum seekers are being subjected to “intense desperation and fear”.
The former airbase in Essex started receiving asylum seekers in July and, by the end of October, 508 men had been placed there. The site is currently facing a legal challenge by Refugee charity Care4Calais as it claims asylum seekers are being housed there illegally.
In a joint (HBF) and (HFRN), men held there have reported “anxiety and , suicidal ideation, intense desperation and fear, self-harm, and acute sleep deprivation”.
